India, Feb. 28 -- Olympic medallist and vice-president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Gagan Narang has questioned IOA president PT Usha's decision to constitute an ad hoc committee to run the affairs of the Boxing Federation of India (BFI), saying "athletes are suffering due to such arbitrary orders."

Citing the recent order of Delhi High Court which set aside an IOA ad-hoc committee set up by Usha for the Bihar Olympic Association, Narang wrote to the IOA president on Friday, "you again arbitrarily constituted an ad hoc Committee for BFI without consulting and/or approval of Executive Council (EC) of the IOA."

Narang said majority of EC members raised objections in the case of BOA and despite this another ad hoc panel was set ...