dna exclusive: Vijender Singh dodges drug test, police to knock on his door

After Olympic boxer Vijender Singh failed to comply with the court orders of appearing at the Central Forensic science Laboratory (CFSL) here on Tuesday for submitting his hair sample in the heroin case, police indicated that arrest warrants were likely to be issued against him.

Last week, a court in the Fatehgarh Sahib district, where a case of heroin seizure has been under investigation, had directed Vijender to go to the CFSL, Chandigarh, to give his sample for heroin testing. The police had sought the court to issue summons to him after he failed to comply with the police directions to join the investigations.

The state police had earlier rubbished the test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency on him at the behest of the Union Sports Ministry which did not find any traces of banned substances in his body. The Punjab police had termed it as a misdirected exercise and had approached a court in Fatehgarh Sahib last week to issue summons to the Olympian. The police claimed that Vijender had consumed heroin at least 12 times between December 2012 and February 2013, a charge that Vijender has firmly rebutted many times.

His name cropped up in the heroin smuggling case after the Fatehgarh Sahib distrcit police seized a heroin consignment of 28 kgs in Zirakpur and found Vijender’s car parked nearby.