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Punjab Police on Sunday said that the top boxer Vijender Singh and his sparring partner Ram Singh had taken heroin for personal consumption. The revelation came a day before the police were to move court to seek permission to collect the Vijender's blood and hair samples as part of their probe into the Rs 130-crore Zirakpur heroin haul.
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Vijender Singh boxer, Vijender Singh, Anup Singh Kahlon
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The revelation, a part of the investigation report by Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib district police, said that Vijender and Ram Singh had consumed heroin about 12 and 5 times respectively.
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"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. 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 twice in February," said a statement issued by the office of Punjab ADGP (Intelligence) Hardeep Dhillon, who is also the official spokesperson of the state police.
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TOI on Friday had reported that the Fatehgarh Sahib police had prepared a 356-page preliminary investigation report into the heroin haul, and a single-page application seeking Vijender's samples. "The matter regarding moving the competent court for issuance of directions to the boxers for making themselves available for a hair test is being examined by deputy district attorney at Fatehgarh Sahib," the police said on Sunday.
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However, Ludhiana DIG MH Farooqi said that neither of them could be arrested at this time as they had not actively connived with the smugglers in their activities and nothing was recovered from them.
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Punjab Police, boxer Vijender Singh, Anup Singh Kahlon
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