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Adrian D'Souza banned for one year

Updated on: 20 June,2012 09:32 AM IST  | 
A Correspondent |

Former India hockey goalie Adrian D'Souza was banned by the Nationa Anti-Doping disciplinary panel for one year yesterday after having tested positive for marijuana during the World Series Hockey (WSH) held earlier this year

Adrian D'Souza banned for one year


D’Souza had tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a metabolite of marijuana, in a sample collected after a WSH match in Jalandhar in March.u00a0


The disciplinary panel, chaired by retired justice Dinesh Dayal, reduced the ban to a year after a supplementary affidavit was submitted by the custodian yesterday. The fresh affidavit was from a person named Anthony Kaithavalappil who had earlier submitted an affidavit stating that the party at which he smoked, was at his place in Mumbai on March 15 this year.u00a0


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