International male weightlifter, gold medallist in Birmingham Commonwealth Games, 2022 Achinta Sheuli has been expelled from National Institute of Sport (NIS) Patiala on the disciplinary ground. 

He has been alleged for scaling the walls of the NIS, Patiala and breaking into the girls’ hostel, while major national camps are on in preparation for the Paris Olympics.

According to reports from Amar Ujala the incident took place on Thursday night, when alert security guards caught the weightlifter. 

One of the NIS office-bearers revealed on condition of anonymity that the security guards caught him when he was scaling the walls at the NIS campus. 

The incident that has also video recording, is being investigated at a very high level by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and the Indian Weightlifting Federation.

Achinta has been sent back home, to a small town near Kolkata. This could well be the end of the road in his weightlifting career. In the past, Sahdev Yadav had told this writer that discipline was top priority. His reference at that time was to cleaning up the doping taint.