Bangalore: A team of National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada), on Monday, conducted raids at Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre here and took urine samples from the campers for testing.
The four-member team, headed by Nada project officer Dr V Jayaraman and which also included a lady doctor, reached the SAI Centre in the morning and searched the hostel rooms of the campers and coaches for banned substances and also took urine samples on a random basis.
The team checked 51 rooms in the hostels — 30 women and 21 men — and collected samples of food supplements and other medicines from four rooms, which were sealed, Nada director general Rahul Bhatnagar said in a statement.
Twenty urine samples of weightlifters and swimmers were also taken on a random basis. In New Delhi, the Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, Ajay Maken said that the ministry is planning to bring a law to deal with the doping menace in the forthcoming monsoon session of the Parliament.
Meanwhile, Ashwini Akkunji and Priyanka Panwar’s ‘B’ samples also tested positive .