New Delhi: The All India Football Federation’s apparent approval of two players who have failed age-verification tests to continue playing in the ongoing sub-junior boys’ national championship for the prestigious BC Roy Trophy has led to its competitions committee chairperson resigning as a mark of protest.

On Tuesday, question marks were raised over presence of two players in the Delhi side that won 4-2 against Punjab at Amritsar’s Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Football Stadium.

The two players in question had earlier failed in their TW3 tests used for age verification, a mandatory criterion for participation in AIFF’s youth championships.

Rules suggest either these players clear their names in re-tests conducted at any AIFF-accredited medical lab or get chalked off from the Delhi team, but to the dismay of Punjab, they were in the substitutes bench and remained unused subs as Delhi won to march into the final.

When Punjab Football Association joint secretary Vijay Bali, who is also AIFF’s competitions committee chairperson, protested and sought clarification over their inclusion, they didn’t receive satisfactory response from the........

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