‘She did not disclose her whereabouts’: JFI chief confirms Tulika Maan’s withdrawal from CWG, next NADA hearing | Commonwealth Games News

NEW DELHI: India’s judo campaign at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has suffered another setback. A day after 73kg judoka Arun Kumar lost after failing a dope test, CWG silver medalist Tulika Maan withdrawn from the Glasgow Games after being investigated for alleged failures where.TimesofIndia.com spoke to the president of the Judo Federation of India (JFI). Mukesh Kumarwho confirmed the development and said the matter was being investigated.Confirming the development, Kumar said: “He has not told us about his whereabouts. We are looking into it. As per the rules, an athlete should disclose his whereabouts to NADA. He did not.”“He has been summoned to the NADA office, he will be there, we will talk to him. Let’s see what decision comes. But as an athlete, he has to disclose where he is so that the test can be done at the right time,” he said.Tulika was one of India’s strongest medalists in judo at the Glasgow Games. She won a silver medal in the women’s +78kg category at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The Indian judo competition at the 2026 Games is scheduled from July 31 to August 2.The development came a day after 73kg judoka Arun was declared ineligible following an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).Arun has enjoyed a rapid rise in recent years. He won gold at the 2023 Macau Junior Asian Cup, followed by another gold at the 2025 Taipei Asian Open and a bronze medal at the Hong Kong Asian Open. Earlier this year, she finished seventh at the prestigious Tashkent Grand Slam, earning her a spot in the Commonwealth Games.

When Indian athletes faced similar charges

This is not the first time that an Indian athlete has faced action in the face of setbacks.Sprinter Hima Das received a 16-month retrospective suspension from NADA after recording three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period (suspension runs from July 22, 2023, to November 21, 2025).Boxer Parveen Hooda has been suspended by the International Testing Agency (ITA) for failings where (the suspension runs from April 2022 and March 2023). He was also stripped of his bronze medal from 2022 Asian Games.

What is the whereabouts system?

The whereabouts system is an anti-doping rule that allows authorities to conduct random, no-notice out-of-competition testing of elite athletes.Athletes who are part of the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) must submit their location details every three months through WADA’s ADAMS platform or the Athlete Central app.They must also provide a specific 60-minute time slot each day during which they are available at a specific location for testing.If a doping control official visits within a one-hour window and cannot find the athlete, it can be recorded as a missed test. Failure to submit or update location details is known as failure to file.Under the anti-doping rules, any combination of three failed tests or filing failures within a rolling 12-month period is considered an anti-doping rule violation and can lead to a ban of one to two years.