28 March,2010 03:24 AM IST | | Correspondent
The Indian Weightlifting Federation handed life bans to three lifters on Saturday, which included 2006 Commonwealth Games silver medallist Vicky Bhatta (56 Kg), for their second dope offences, PTI reported.
The other offenders are G Damodaran (105 Kg) and Rajesh Kumar Singh (94 Kg). "We have handed life bans to Vicky Bhatta, G Damodaran and Rajesh Kumar Singh as they had failed dope tests for the second time. The federation is very serious on taking strong action on drug offenders. We want to clean up the dope menace and we are sending a strong message that we are not going to tolerate doping," IWF Secretary Sahadev Yadav said.
