India News | Drunk Cop Beats Up Doctor, Attendant at MP Hospital
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A doctor and an attendant were allegedly beaten up by a drunk police constable at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on Wednesday, police said.
Ujjain (MP) Jul 1 (PTI) A doctor and an attendant were allegedly beaten up by a drunk police constable at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on Wednesday, police said.
Constable Raju Nikode had visited the district hospital to get himself examined and a doctor there asked him to go to a flu clinic instead, Kotwali police station in- charge Manish Lodha said.
The policeman, however, returned after a short while and started verbally abusing Dr Amit Patidar and proceeded to beat him up, the official said.
When an attendant came to the doctor's rescue, he too was assaulted, he said.
Based on the doctor's complaint, Madhav Nagar area's city superintendent of police (CSP) Ravindra Varma investigated the matter.
While no one sustained serious injuries in the incident, it was found that the constable was in an inebriated state and his MLC (medico-legal case) was done, Lodha said, adding that the matter was being probed. PTI COR MAS ARU ARU 07012118 NNNNa phone call when the testers were unable to find him, saying he had received calls “every other time” he was tested.
“I think the attempt on December 9th was a purposeful attempt to get me to miss a test,” he wrote.
The AIU said a phone call wasn't a requirement and that it usually asks employees not to call athletes because that could undermine the testing program.
“Any advanced notice of testing, in the form of a phone call or otherwise, provides an opportunity for athletes to engage in tampering or evasion or other improper conduct which can limit the efficacy of testing,” the AIU said in an e-mailed statement.
The AIU added that under World Anti-Doping Agency rules “proof that a telephone call was made is not a requisite element of a missed test and the lack of any telephone call does not give the athlete a defense to the assertion of a missed test.”
Some of Coleman's earlier missed tests were not with the AIU but with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, whose own handbook for athletes says phone calls are usually reserved only for the last five minutes of a time slot and “to confirm the unavailability of the athlete, not to locate an athlete for testing.”
Athletes are required to list their whereabouts for an hour each day when they must be available to be tested. A violation means an athlete either did not fill out forms telling authorities where they could be found, or that they weren't where they said they would be when testers arrived.
Coleman said in his post he has been appealing the latest missed test for six months with the AIU, which runs the anti-doping program for World Athletics. He explained there was no record of anyone coming to his home and that if he had been called he was only five minutes away.
It's the second time Coleman has faced a potential ban for a whereabouts violation. Coleman won the 100 meters at the world championships in Doha, Qatar, last September after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency dropped his case for missed tests because of a technicality.
“I have never and will never use performance enhancing supplements or drugs,” Coleman wrote Tuesday. “I am willing to take a drug test EVERY single day for the rest of my career for all I care to prove my innocence.” Coleman is the latest in a string of big-name athletes hit with whereabouts charges in 2020.
The AIU filed a similar charge this month against women's 400-meter world champion Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain. She was already under investigation when she won gold in Doha last year in the fastest time since 1985.
Former U.S. national 200 champion Deajah Stevens was suspended in May. (AP)
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