One of India’s brightest Badminton player and 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lakshya Sen lands into legal trouble and  controversy after an FIR was filed against him for age fraud and cheating in Bengaluru.

According to reports, the FIR was filed by an individual named M Goviappa Nagaraja and he has included names of  Lakshya Sen’s father Dhirendra Sen, brother Chirag Sen, and mother Nirmala alongside coach U Vimal Kumar in the FIR.

Nagaraja also runs a badminton academy in Bengaluru. According to him the 21-year-old Lakshya Sen and his brother fudged their age since 2010 to play in age-group tournaments.

Lakshya Sen  hails from Almora district in Uttarakhand  and  trains at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bengaluru. His father is a coach with the Sports Authority of India. His brother Chirag Sen is also an International  badminton player.

As per the complainant in the FIR both the  brothers colluded with the parents and the coach to forge their  birth certificates to  participate in age-restricted tournaments. Nagaraja claimed that Sen’s age is 24 which is strikingly different from the August 16, 2001 date mentioned in the shuttler’s document registered with the Badminton Association of India.

Sen who now competes in the senior category was born in 2001 according to records. According to Nagaraja he was born in 1998.

Meanwhile as per reports the father  of Lakshya Sen was unavailable for any comments but the coach U Vimal Kumar termed  allegations termed those allegations as false and cheap . He denied of any involvement in such acts since he trained Lakshya from the starting just like any other child in the academy  . Moreover Lakshya who has been doing well had just started training again after a break. And such allegations are mentally disturbinf for him .

The police case has been registered under IPC Sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged record).

And if the allegations are proven true, lakhsya Sen may have to give up  a majority of his records and trophies won.

Lakshya Sen created history in August after he became only the fourth Indian after Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi and Parupalli Kashyap to claim gold in men’s singles at the Commonwealth Games. He had also won the historic Thomas Cup earlier this year too. Recently  he was awarded the Arjuna award by the government.