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Summary NADA said that world body was seeking 2-year bans on the six 400-meter runners.
The World Anti Doping Agency has appealed against the leniency of one-year doping bans given to six Indian female runners last year.Indias National Anti Doping Agency director-general Rahul Bhatnagar said the world body was seeking two-year bans on the six 400-meter runners.A NADA panel handed down lighter punishments in December because it believed the runners had consumed banned substances unknowingly.The athletes included three members of the winning relay quartet at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in 2010: Ashwini Akkunji, Mandeep Kaur and Sini Jose. The others were Jauna Murmu, Tiana Mary and Priyanka Panwar.All of them tested positive for one or more of three banned steroids: methandienone, epimethandiol and stanozolol.
