Vijender in trouble: 80 calls to drug dealer; 12 drug encounters

Monday, 01/04/2013

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CHANDIGARH: Punjab police have tightened it noose around Beijing Olympics bronze medallist Vijender Singh, who, it said, has taken drugs on at least 12 occasions and exchanged calls with the arrested NRI durg peddler about 80 times.

The police Sunday said, it has been established that Boxers Ram Singh and Vijender Singh took heroin from Anoop Singh Kahlon and Rocky for personal consumption between December 2012 and February 2013.

The police have already moved court to procure the hair and blood samples of the boxer who had declined to do so when the police questioned him earlier this month. Vijender is also a Deputy Superintendent of Police with Haryana police, an honour bestowed on him for his feat in the game.

A senior Punjab police officer said it had been found that Vijender had spoken to drug dealer Anoop Kahlon about 80 times on the phone.

Consumption quantity heroin was first procured by Ram Singh alone in December 2012 and subsequently both the boxers went together to Zirakpur for procuring consumption quantity heroin once in January and two times in February.

As per investigation conducted so far Vijender Singh consumed the drug about 12 times and Ram Singh about five times.

However, they did not actively connive with the smugglers in their activities and nothing was recovered from them - as such both of them are not being arrested in the case at this stage.

Ram Singh has been dismissed from the police department since it is established that he frequented the smugglers and procured heroin from them.

The matter regarding moving the competent Court for issuance of directions to the boxers for making themselves available for a hair test was examined by Dy. DA, Fatehgarh Sahib. Hair testing facilities are not available in local Forensic Science labs. On advise from Dy. DA, the local FSL unit has been moved to provide information as to which lab in the country can conduct the test appropriately, the validity and certainty of such a test and the duration within which the drug can be detected in a hair sample.

The Crime wing of Punjab police has directed the local FSL to provide this information early so that further requisite action can be taken.

The police said the primary focus of the police is to nab the active smugglers and break their network, the police said.