Police planted Viju's car outside drug peddler's flat: Dinesh

The drug scandal implicating Vijender Singh took a new twist today with his fellow boxer and Asian Games silver-medallist Dinesh Kumar claiming that Punjab Police planted the star pugilist's car outside the flat from where heroin was recovered.
The recovery of the car, registered in the name of Vijender's wife, outside the Zirakpur flat from where heroin worth Rs 130 crore was recovered last month, led to the boxer's name cropping up in the scandal.
Vijender was further implicated when his sparring partner Ram Singh and the drug racket's alleged kingpin, Anoop Singh Kahlon, took his name as a consumer.

But Dinesh said the police at Fatehgarh Sahib planted the car outside the flat.
"Ram got a call from Fatehgarh Sahib Police that he would have to come for questioning. He was at NIS Patiala with us on that day. Me and a fellow boxer Bunty accompanied him in the car which the police claim was found outside the flat," Dinesh told PTI over phone.
"When we reached Fatehgarh Sahib, the police told us that Ram would have to be questioned. Me and Bunty then decided to go out for a while and we intended to come back to pick Ram but the policemen insisted that we leave the car at the station only," he recalled.

"We objected to it and told them that the car was not ours and had to be taken back to Patiala but they forced us to leave the car at the station and told us to go back. We remained in Fatehgarh Sahib till the evening because we wanted to take the car back but the police did not allow that," he said.