Anti Doping Agency Refuses To Test Boxer Vijender Singh for Heroin
NEW DELHI: The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has refused to check India's best known boxing star Vijender Singh for heroin after Punjab police on Sunday asserted the pugilist consumed heroin 12 times from December 2012 to February 2013 while his colleague Ram Singh took it 5 times.
Vijender has denied the allegation but Punjab Police said the 27-year-old boxer had heroin on 12 occasions, prompting the sports ministry to inquire about the National Anti-Doping Agency to carry out a test on him.
The NADA would like to conduct a random dope test around the boxer but has conveyed it cannot test the boxer for herion according to World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
NADA chief, Mukul Chatterjee said that testing of Olympic bronze medallist, Vijender Singh for heroin intake will be a breach of protocol as mentioned by the World anti-doping body.
The NADA chief also asserted Vijender has missed three drug tests within the last one month and the last test conducted on him was at July last year. Meanwhile former coach from the Indian boxing team, Om Prakash Bhardwaj asserted Vijender should come out in public to create a statement and clarify his stand.
Vijender, whose middleweight bronze in the 2008 Beijing Olympics helped raise boxing's profile in India, landed in danger after last month's Rs 484 crore drug haul in Punjab whenever a fellow boxer told the investigators he and Singh consumed heroin given by the drug dealer.
Inside a communication sent to the director general of NADA, the ministry said reports have appeared in media regarding alleged consumption of heroin through the pugilist.
"Such reports in respect of a sporting icon are disturbing and could have a debilitating influence on other sportspersons in the united states. It has, therefore, been desired that NADA gets a test completed on Shri Vijender Singh for his reported utilization of heroin even out-of-competition. The communication has asked NADA to handle the test immediately under intimation towards the Ministry," said a statement in the ministry.
The Fatehgarh Sahib police had earlier this year (March 7), recovered over 28 kg heroin, worth Rs.130 crore within the international market, from Kahlon's possession coupled with arrested him. The drug haul is made from Kahlon's flat in Zirakpur, near Chandigarh, and the car.
Police also found a SUV, registered within the name of Vijender Singh's wife Archana, parked outside Kahlon's flat. Kahlon reportedly told law enforcement that Vijender and fellow boxer Ram Singh were his "clients".
The Punjab Mother and father already questioned Vijender, who is a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) within the Haryana Police, in connection with the drugs racket. The boxer has, to date, refused to give his blood and hair samples to police.
Vijender has denied the allegation but Punjab Police said the 27-year-old boxer had heroin on 12 occasions, prompting the sports ministry to inquire about the National Anti-Doping Agency to carry out a test on him.
The NADA would like to conduct a random dope test around the boxer but has conveyed it cannot test the boxer for herion according to World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
NADA chief, Mukul Chatterjee said that testing of Olympic bronze medallist, Vijender Singh for heroin intake will be a breach of protocol as mentioned by the World anti-doping body.
The NADA chief also asserted Vijender has missed three drug tests within the last one month and the last test conducted on him was at July last year. Meanwhile former coach from the Indian boxing team, Om Prakash Bhardwaj asserted Vijender should come out in public to create a statement and clarify his stand.
Vijender, whose middleweight bronze in the 2008 Beijing Olympics helped raise boxing's profile in India, landed in danger after last month's Rs 484 crore drug haul in Punjab whenever a fellow boxer told the investigators he and Singh consumed heroin given by the drug dealer.
Inside a communication sent to the director general of NADA, the ministry said reports have appeared in media regarding alleged consumption of heroin through the pugilist.
"Such reports in respect of a sporting icon are disturbing and could have a debilitating influence on other sportspersons in the united states. It has, therefore, been desired that NADA gets a test completed on Shri Vijender Singh for his reported utilization of heroin even out-of-competition. The communication has asked NADA to handle the test immediately under intimation towards the Ministry," said a statement in the ministry.
The Fatehgarh Sahib police had earlier this year (March 7), recovered over 28 kg heroin, worth Rs.130 crore within the international market, from Kahlon's possession coupled with arrested him. The drug haul is made from Kahlon's flat in Zirakpur, near Chandigarh, and the car.
Police also found a SUV, registered within the name of Vijender Singh's wife Archana, parked outside Kahlon's flat. Kahlon reportedly told law enforcement that Vijender and fellow boxer Ram Singh were his "clients".
The Punjab Mother and father already questioned Vijender, who is a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) within the Haryana Police, in connection with the drugs racket. The boxer has, to date, refused to give his blood and hair samples to police.
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