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Order reserved in Manjeet case

Last Updated 05 June 2012, 17:33 IST

The judgement was reserved on Tuesday in the case of quartermiler Manjeet Kaur, who was charged by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for avoiding dope tests.

NADA says Manjeet, who was part of India’s gold medal-winning relay team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the Guangzhou Asian Games, had refused to accept the notice served by its dope control official B J Verma during the Federation Cup in Patiala on April 21.
The case was brought up as one of ‘refusal’ which carries the same punishment as a positive test.

In her defence, Manjeet said she had already notified Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on June 12 last year that she would not be part of any camp and training activities because of her injury and police training. She said she had only come to watch the practice.

Verma, who is the assistant project officer of NADA, insisted he intimated AFI Director ML Dogra of Manjeet’s refusal.

The anti-doping disciplinary panel, headed by Dinesh Dayal, questioned NADA whether they could test the athlete who is not active and when she had already informed the federation about her unavailability.

Dayal also asked about Verma’s note which stated that he was going to test her out of competition under the ‘whereabouts’ clause while the NADA, at least in the case of athletics, did not have a registered testing pool.

Another intriguing point that came up through her letter to the AFI was the suggestion that Manjeet had retired from the sport. However, one of the panel members, Dr PSM Chandran, said the letter did not amount to retirement.

Dr Chandran wanted to know whether Verma’s assertion that Manjeet had “refused” was counter-signed by an independent witness. Verma did not have a witness sign his dope control notification since there was no slot for such a signature in the form.

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(Published 05 June 2012, 17:33 IST)

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