NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Olympic boxer Vijender Singh has refused to provide blood and hair samples to establish whether he used illicit drugs linked to a police investigation of drugs worth more than $25 million confiscated from an international criminal network.
Senior Punjab Police officer Hardyal Singh Mann said in a statement late Monday night that India's only Olympic medal-winning boxer did not consent to a forensic examination which could have established whether he used drugs.
Police questioned Vijender after his sparring partner Ram Singh claimed the pair had used drugs bought from the people arrested in the drugs haul on several occasions.
Ram has subsequently been expelled from the National Institute of Sports in the northern city of Patiala.
Vijender won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games.