Olympic medallist Vijender Singh is not cooperating in the multi-crore drug bust probe, said Punjab Police sources. The police is likely to explore legal options to test for drugs after the boxer refused to give blood samples. ...
10:39 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Shamya Dasgupta, author of 'Bhiwani Junction', joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the recent drug scandal affecting the image of Indian boxing. ...
06:42 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Olympics bronze medallist Vijender Singh has said that he is willing to provide his blood and hair samples to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) than to the Punjab police saying that the team that visited him on Monday to question him and take his samples was "ill-prepared" and did not have a doctor on board. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 12, 2013
A court in Chandigarh on Monday sentenced a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and his aide to 13 years in jail in a case of pilfering seized contraband. ...
04:35 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Trouble seems to be mounting for the poster boy of Indian boxing Vijender Singh, with Punjab Police questioning the Olympic medal winning boxer. However, his hometown, Bhiwani, has refused to believe Vijender was involved in the Rs 130 drug racket. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013
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11:58 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh on Monday denied that he took drugs, during questioning by Punjab Police. However, the boxer refused to give his hair and blood samples. Vijender was questioned Monday evening for more than three hours. Sources said the boxer also denied knowing those involved in drug peddling. ...
11:54 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh on Monday denied that he took drugs, during questioning by Punjab Police. However, the boxer refused to give his hair and blood samples. ...
09:22 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Punjab police on Monday began questioning of Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh over his alleged involvement in the Rs 130 crore drug racket. His friend and a national-level boxer Ram Singh, who was expelled from Patiala's National Institute of Sports for his association with the case, had revealed that he and Vijender both consumed drugs, thinking they were food supplements. ...
07:15 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Russia will contribute an extra 300,000 euros a year to WADA, which carries out doping tests at the Olympics. ...
04:16 PM, Mar 11, 2013
A minor boy died after a teenager administered a drug overdose to him in Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused has been taken into custody. "Saurabh, a class 5 student was playing outside his house in Karawal Nagar in east Delhi, on Saturday afternoon, when he was allegedly taken by a 17-year-old neighbour to an isolated place and injected with a drug overdose," said a police officer. ...
05:47 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The Rs 130 crore drug haul in Punjab, which has brought Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh and a national-level boxer Ram Singh in the dock, has highlighted a larger drug network in the state. A former top level sports man and Arjuna awardee Jagdish Bhola is said to be the kingpin of the network. ...
09:40 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Olympic medalist Vijender Singh is in the dock after his friend and national-level boxer Ram Singh confirmed they took drugs, believing them to be food supplements. But the boxing federation has backed Vijender and suspended Ram Singh from the national camp. ...
09:09 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said he does not think boxer Vijender Singh has any involvement with the drug haul case in Punjab, stressing that law would take its own course. The Chief Minister was asked to comment on the Olympic medallist's name cropping up in connection with the Rs 130 crore heroin haul in Punjab's Zirakpur recently. ...
08:04 PM, Mar 10, 2013
India's national boxing coach GS Sandhu came to support the Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh amidst allegations against him in the Rs 130 crore drug haul, even as Ram Singh, another national-level boxer who is under investigation in the case, was expelled by Patiala's National Institute of Sports on Sunday. ...
04:58 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Ram Singh earlier in the day admitted that Vijender and he took drugs but by mistake. ...
01:23 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Boxer Ram Singh has been expelled from National Institute of Sports, Patiala on in the wake of allegations against him and Olympic medallist Vijender Singh in the Rs 130 crore drug haul case. NIS director has said that Ram brought in Vijender's recommendation. ...
01:21 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The police is reportedly doubtful whether traces of heroin will now be found in his blood stream. ...
10:50 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Sources on Sunday said that boxers Vijender Singh and Ram Singh may get a clean chit in the Rs 130 crore drug haul case as investigations suggest they had no role in smuggling. The police is reportedly doubtful whether traces of heroin will now be found in their blood stream. ...
09:56 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Boxer Ram Singh has now admitted that both he and Olympic medallist Vijender Singh took drugs but thinking they were food supplements. "Vijender took drugs two or three times thinking that they were food supplements. When we found out they were drugs we were shocked and stopped taking them," Ram told CNN-IBN. ...
07:59 AM, Mar 10, 2013
