An investigation was launched by the worldwide governing body last night after claims were made that Teli held two passports.

It emerged that Teli had previously competed under the name Hemalata for India at the 2021 Women's National Championships where she claimed gold and lived in Delhi.

Following the probe, the IBA revealed that Teli had never acquired an Indian passport and was not in violation of its technical and competition rules.

"Eight years ago, she received Nepali citizenship, as her parents are originally from the country," the statement from the IBA read.

"Therefore, she is fully eligible to represent Nepal at the Women’s World Boxing Championships."

The Boxing Federation of India said that Teli was able to participate at the Women’s National Championships after showing her Aadhar card - an identification number that can be obtained by a foreigner who has spent more than 182 days in India, in a 12-month period proceeding the date of application.

Living not far from the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall, Teli made home advantage count to upset Sterling.

The Haiti boxer was well beaten by Teli who sealed her place in the quarter-finals with an emphatic victory.

This was one of several surprises on day five of competition, with four of the top five seeds in the flyweight division crashing out.

Sakshi thrilled the home crowd again when she defeated Uzbekistan’s fifth seed Zhazira Uraybayeva.

Third seed Helena Bagao of Mozambique lost to Yesugen Oyuntsetseg of Mongolia, while China continued their brilliant form in this tournament with Wu Yu beating fourth seed Maria Caceres Gonzalez of Spain.

There were no such problems for Japanese second seed Rinka Kinoshita who saw off Serbia’s Sara Cirkovic.

There was also a big shock in the light middleweight division as Armenia's Ani Hovsepyan was sent packing by China’s Zhou Pan.

Other highly-ranked winners in the category included Australia’s Kaye Scott, Brazil’s Barbara Dos Santos, Algeria’s Ichrak Chaib and Russia’s Anastasiia Demurchian.

Thailand’s Jutamas Jitpong silenced the Indian fans when she overcame Preeti to advance to the last eight of the bantamweight division.

Preeti had knocked out Romanian top seed Lacramioara Perijoc in the previous round but came unstuck against Jitpong.

Zhaina Shekerbekova of Kazakhstan is the only seeded boxer left in the category heading into the quarter-finals after beating Uzbekistan’s Nigina Uktamova.

Third seed Viviane Pereira of Brazil exited at the last-16 stage after losing to Turkey’s five-time world medallist Elif Guneri.

Two-time Olympic medallist Li Qian of China took little time to dispatch of Lin Chien-yu of Chinese Taipei with the referee stopping the contest after less than two minutes.

Top seed Rady Gramane of Mozambique swept into the quarter-finals after seeing off Sokhiba Ruzmetova of Uzbekistan and will now face Indian Lovlina Borgohain who beat Venessa Ortiz of Mexico.

Panamanian boxer Atheyna Bylon, seeded second for the tournament having claimed silver last year, also advanced, defeating Russia’s Anastasiia Triebelova.

Competition is due to continue tomorrow.