Vijender Singh: Sport, drugs and defamation?

Indian boxer Vijender Singh, who won bronze at the Beijing Olympics, speaks on his phone at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village in New Delhi, India. (AP)

Uzbekistan's Abbos Atoev (right) is declared the winner over India's Vijender Singh during their Men's Middle (75kg) quarter-final at the London Olympic Games on Monday. (REUTERS)

Published Sunday, March 10, 2013

By Staff

India’s star boxer Vijender Singh is being quickly dragged into a heroin haul and Indian media today reported he will soon be called for a dope test.

Fellow boxer Ram Singh claims that he and Vijender Singh took drugs thinking it was a food supplement. He also confessed to have met drug dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon and purchasing heroin

Singh was detained and questioned by the police on Friday after it was found he drove Vijender's Ford Endeavour to Kahlon's Zirakpur apartment, where the keys to the boxer's SUV were found. The Endeavour is registered in Vijender's wife's name.

The police is yet to question Olympic medallist Vijender Singh in the case. Ram Singh said he and Vijender had met drug dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon 3-4 times since December.

The boxers are now linked to the Rs 130 crore heroin haul.

The Beijing bronze medal-winning boxer immediately denied any links with suspected druglord Anoop Singh Kahlon, accused of stashing 26kg of heroin in an apartment in Zirakpur, on the outskirts of Chandigarh.

Pictures taken from official Vijender Singh facebook page

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