Mumbai, June 27 -- Manika Batra has signalled her intention not to pursue the matter of her Asian Games non-selection further, while also accusing the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) of violating its constitution. In her latest social media statement on Friday, India's star paddler, who had sought a response from the TTFI over her exclusion from the five-member women's squad for the continental Games, confirmed receiving it. She pointed out that the selection committee comprised nine members, "while Article 24(C)(j) of the TTFI Constitution states that no Sub-Committee can have more than 7 members," she wrote in the statement. Other than that, Manika, who had threatened legal action in an earlier statement, said she is, for now, "putting my sword down". "A nine-member committee decided my fate, yet I am being told that the process was fully compliant with the Constitution and the rules," she said, adding that she was "mentally exhausted". From that nine-member panel voted for the selected squad of Sreeja Akula, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Syndrela Das, Diya Chitale and Sutirtha Mukherjee, with Manika, despite being the India No.2 in the international rankings, in the reserves.TTFI has maintained that the squad was selected according to criteria laid out in 2023, through a combined weightage of international and national rankings. While it can be debated if selection system needs a re-look for the future, Manika did not meet the benchmarks laid out in the present criteria. With the former top-25 player having stayed away from any domestic competition during that period, including the nationals, she was not ranked domestically. And with her slipping out of the top 50 of the WTT charts - she is currently ranked 51st - the automatic qualification route was closed for her....