Bhubaneswar, Jan. 30 -- Indian sprinter and Olympian Dutee Chand has expressed concern over notices issued to prominent sportspersons under West Bengal's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Speaking to ANI on Friday, she said, "It is a welcome step that SIR is expelling non-Indian residents. But the athletes always play for the country, and they have made the country proud, and this notice is not right."

Chand's remarks come after former Indian footballer Mehtab Hossain, as well as former cricketers Jhulan Goswami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, and Mohammad Shami, received summons from the Election Commission to appear for verification hearings. All of them complied with the summons and appeared for their respective heari...