Delhi Dynamos player Rana Gharami has been handed a provisional suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency after he tested positive for a banned substance in a first such case involving an Indian Super League footballer.
The 28-year-old Gharami returned positive for prednisone and prednisolone metabolities in an in-competition test conducted during an ISL match in New Delhi on January 31.
The defender from West Bengal, who played for Mohun Bagan in 2017-18 before joining Delhi Dynamos in the 2018-19 season, did not have a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE), according to sources.
"(Gharami) has tested positive for a banned substance and his (provisional) suspension has begun from the time he got the letter (from NADA)," a club source told PTI on Friday on the condition of anonymity.
"He has been asked to explain how and why the banned drug went into his system and he is expected to do that."
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