<p> <br />Male lifters Harbhajan Singh and Rajesh Kumar and female Bijaya Devi were caught in World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) tests at a training camp for the Commonwealth championships, Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) secretary Baldev Gulati said. <br /><br />Shailaja Pujari, a women's 75kg gold medallist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and men's 56kg lifter Vicky Batta failed out-of-competition tests last month. "I'm dumbfounded," Gulati told on Thursday. "All of them have shown some sort of anabolic steroid. <br /><br />"We've also had periodic dope tests. This shows something has happened in the last 20 days, just before the Commonwealth championships, (lifters) trying something, if this is correct." "What is causing a bit of suspicion is all of them have tested for the same type of anabolic steroid, the same quantum. There is something that doesn't look very natural." <br /><br />IOA forms committee<br /><br />Alarmed that the recent dope flunk could send out a negative image of the country ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Games, Indian Olympic Association on Thursday formed a four-member committee to look into the matter and submit a report within a week.<br /><br />The committee will be chaired by IOA senior official KP Singh Deo and will also include the association’s Medical Commission chairman Dr Manmohan Singh. “IOA was alarmed by a number of weightlifters testing positive for banned substances during a training camp in Pune. As host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, IOA stresses that it is important for Indian sport to be dope free,” IOA said in a statement.<br /></p>
<p> <br />Male lifters Harbhajan Singh and Rajesh Kumar and female Bijaya Devi were caught in World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) tests at a training camp for the Commonwealth championships, Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) secretary Baldev Gulati said. <br /><br />Shailaja Pujari, a women's 75kg gold medallist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and men's 56kg lifter Vicky Batta failed out-of-competition tests last month. "I'm dumbfounded," Gulati told on Thursday. "All of them have shown some sort of anabolic steroid. <br /><br />"We've also had periodic dope tests. This shows something has happened in the last 20 days, just before the Commonwealth championships, (lifters) trying something, if this is correct." "What is causing a bit of suspicion is all of them have tested for the same type of anabolic steroid, the same quantum. There is something that doesn't look very natural." <br /><br />IOA forms committee<br /><br />Alarmed that the recent dope flunk could send out a negative image of the country ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Games, Indian Olympic Association on Thursday formed a four-member committee to look into the matter and submit a report within a week.<br /><br />The committee will be chaired by IOA senior official KP Singh Deo and will also include the association’s Medical Commission chairman Dr Manmohan Singh. “IOA was alarmed by a number of weightlifters testing positive for banned substances during a training camp in Pune. As host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, IOA stresses that it is important for Indian sport to be dope free,” IOA said in a statement.<br /></p>