Indian table tennis is in news again but for all the wrong reasons.

A former chief national coach venting his ire for alleged ill-treatment meted out to him during the recently-concluded age-group Nationals, players crying foul over the selection criteria for the Commonwealth Games squads, state associations as well as the apex body, Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), moving court — surely the Delhi High Court-appointed Court of Administrators have their plate full.

The Delhi High court appointed a three-member CoA — comprising Gita Mittal, former chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, advocate Chetan Mittal, and former athlete SD Mudgil — to run the show in TTFI in February and since then the troubles have been never-ending.

And when the Mudgil-led selection committee deviated from the existing criteria to include “medal prospects” in CWG squads all hell broke loose.

Paddlers Swastika Ghosh, Diya Chitale and Manush Shah have criticised the way the squads were chosen with Chitale already moving court. Ghosh and Shah have taken to Twitter pleading their case, with the former emailing to the CoA seeking justice.

Manika Batra (world No. 39), Archana Kamath (66), Sreeja Akula (rank 69), Reeth Rishya (100) form the four-member women’s squad with Chitale kept as the stand-by. The men’s squad has Sharath Kamal, G. Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai, while Shah is the standby.

Mudgil had said on Tuesday: “Under the existing selection criteria, one of the members (Archana Kamath) fall outside the top four… with an eye on a rich medal haul in Birmingham, we have included the said player in the team. She (Archana Kamath) is one half of the doubles pair (Manika the other) that is ranked No. 4 in the world and which will be the top seeds at the Commonwealth Games.”

Sandip Ghosh, 18-year-old’s Swastika’s father, alleged Batra and Kamath were given special treatment. “My daughter is India No. 4. Why she should not be in the squad?” Ghosh told The Telegraph from Navi Mumbai.

Dua ‘humiliated’

Manjit Singh Dua, who recently quit as national chief coach, alleged that he was ill-treated during the cadet and sub-junior national meet in Indore recently. “I was told that the CoA had asked to organisers not to allow me on the dias during the tournament. Is this the way you treat a former player who has served the country with distinction?” Dua said from Gurgaon.

Dua said he had helped the CoA in finding its feet in the last three-and-a-half months. “But once I offered to resign after the CoA started to make certain changes, I got into their bad books. There were a lot of disenchantments in the state association over the way they changed the selection criteria and me being the secretary of the Delhi unit felt it was right to leave,” he said.