new delhi just four days to go for the birmingham commonwealth games cwg and the indian contingent has been rocked by another doping episode toi has learnt that two of the cwgbound para athletes have failed the drug test for banned substances in an outofcompetition testing by the national antidoping agency nada officials in pune and delhi respectivelyboth have been handed provisional suspension and have been dropped from the 30member para squad for the games on wednesday two of the countrys leading women athletes 100m and 4x100m specialist dhanalakshmi sekar and triple jumper aishwarya babu had returned positive for dope and were excluded from the 36memberathletics contingentin the recent case armyman aneesh kumar surendran pillai who competes in the mens shot put if1 category and woman para powerlifter geeta from haryana failed the dope test after traces of prohibited drugs were found in their urine samples while aneeshs sample was collected from his training base in pune geeta was tested at the jawaharlal nehru jln stadium here during a preparatory camp for the pyeongtaek world para powerlifting asiaoceania open championships in south korea held in june the news came at a time when the first batch of sixmember para table tennis squad which included bhavina patel the first indian tt player to secure a medal at the paralympics in tokyo and sonal patel left for birmingham late saturday nightaccording to sources aneesh who had bagged gold at the world military games in october 2019 returned positive for a masking agent after failing to submit a therapeutic use exemption tue certificate for medicines consumed to treat his blood pressure bp in the case of geeta her sample revealed the presence of an anabolic steroid she was directly training under the guidance of national powerlifting coach jp singh confirming the development pci president deepa malik told toi i am shattered to hear the news i feel sad for the athletes and their unnecessary need to take shortcuts we will hold our own inquiry into the matter we are concerned as a federation despite doing so much to create awareness about doping hosting webinars and personally interacting with the athletes it gives me immense pain when i hear such a thing we have a zerotolerance policy for doping