Bengaluru, May 31 -- In a landmark judgment restoring both reputation and career, the Karnataka High Court on Saturday quashed the four-year doping ban imposed on national basketball player Shashank J Rai, accepting his scientifically substantiated defence that the presence of a banned substance in his urine was the inadvertent result of pork consumption-a dietary staple in his native coastal Karnataka. Justice M Nagaprasanna, allowing the writ petition filed by Rai, held that the penalty imposed by the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel and later upheld by the Appellate Authority was vitiated by a glaring failure to consider his plausible explanation, backed by expert opinion and documentation. "The petitioner attributes the presence of 19-NA ...