New Delhi: The All India Football Federation will not bar those two players at the centre of an age-verification controversy from participating in the final of sub-junior boys’ national championship for the BC Roy Trophy on Thursday.

The AIFF had hurriedly arranged an executive committee meeting on Wednesday evening after resignation of its competitions committee chairman on Tuesday to protest apparent approval of two overage players to play in the ongoing sub-junior boys’ national championship in Amritsar.

Those two boys, believed to be from privileged backgrounds, were part of the Delhi side that beat Punjab 4-2 in the semi-finals despite failing in the mandatory TW3 tests done to prevent age-fraud.

The two players were unused substitutes in the match held at the Sri Guru Hargobind

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