In fresh trouble for international boxer and Olympic medallist Vijender Singh, the Punjab police on Sunday said he had consumed heroin 12 times after procuring it from alleged drug smugglers, including NRI Anoop Singh Kahlon.
“As per investigation conducted so far, Vijender Singh consumed the drug about 12 times and Ram Singh (his sparring partner) about five times,” a Punjab police statement said here.
Kahlon, alias Ruby, the alleged Canada-based drug dealer, was arrested by the police on March 3 and 26 kg of heroin worth `130 crore seized from his residence in Zirakpur, on the outskirts of Chandigarh.
The Punjab police spokesperson said, “It has been established that boxers Ram Singh and Vijender Singh took heroin from Kahlon and his aide Rocky for personal consumption between December 2012 and February 2013.”
While Ram Singh alone procured heroin in December 2012, subsequently both the boxers went together to Zirakpur to procure the drug once in January and two times in February this year, the police said.
Vijender, who has denied any involvement in the drugs racket, was not immediately available for comments. The police said it was initiating steps to take a hair sample of Vijender for testing by the Forensic Science Laboratory.