hyderabad in a development that has left the sports authority of india sai with egg on its face shuttler siril verma who was found overage ahead of the asian junior badminton championships was cleared by the all india institute of medical sciences aiims siril and three other girls in the u17 category kalpita sawant bhavya rishi and kanika kanwal were declared overage by the doctors at the ram manohar lohia hospital in new delhi who conducted age determination tests at the behest of sai last week siril was certified above 18 years of age hours before the indian team was to board the flight to indonesia aghast at the report sirils parents took him to aiims the countrys premier hospital on tuesday dr smriti hari additional professor of department of radiology at aiims certified that sirils age was estimated to be between 1618 years it is learnt that the doctors at aiims were surprised at the overage report like others sirils parents too had cried foul before they took their son to aiims they alleged that it was a conspiracy to prevent siril from participating in the tournament siril was the top seed and favourite to win a medal at the asian meet similar were the cases of kalpita sawant and bhavya rishi statistical records suggest that their birth certificates are genuine as they showed the periods of their mothers pregnancy and the dates of delivery according to nilesh prabhu a key member of the parents body which exposed several age fraud incidents through rti sawants and bhavyas age cannot be wrong as both have clear statistical records when the dates of mothers pregnancy are recorded with a reputed hospital how can the age be wrong there is a big scam here because the real cheats were cleared there are plenty of ways to check correct age of these overage players if sai had checked the service records and paternal leave of sai coach dk sen then the correct age of his sons would have been revealed said prabhu alleging that sens son lakshya who reached the quarters in boys singles at the asian meet has surprised everyone when he cleared the rml test chief coach of the indian team pullela gopichand said there should be a proper system to check the menace the cases of siril and the other girls are unfortunate we should weed out the agefraud menace but at the same time should not punish the innocent this taint on them will affect their morale gopichand said