"Handing provisional suspension on chef-de-mission was an insult to the country and to IOA and the AIBA has no jurisdiction and right to pass strictures on Adille Sumariwala," Mehta told PTI.
"The IOA is writing a protest letter to the OCA and the IOC in this regard. We will say that what the AIBA has done (suspension of chef-de-mission) was totally wrong," he added.
"Regarding the provisional suspension of Sarita Devi, she has nothing to do after she had apologised to the OCA and the AIBA during the Incheon Asian Games. The OCA had accepted the apology from Sarita and what more she can do now. We will request the OCA to intervene into this and lift Sarita's suspension," he said.
"Had there been a manager, then he would have tackled the issue immediately at the spot and the matter would not have such a big issue. The refusal by the government, on the insistence of some officials, to send managers in the Asian Games this time have led to a very difficult situation which the IOA had not faced earlier. We have apprised the sports minister that such an interference was against the autonomy granted to the NSFs and the IOA under the Olympic Charter. We will no longer tolerate this kind of interference any more," he said.