On 5 May 2017 the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel of India (ADDPI) decided to impose a 4 year period of ineligibility on the powerlifter Balinder Singh after his sample tested positive for the prohibited substance Testosterone and its Adiols.
Hereafter the Athlete appealed the First Instance decision on 5 May 2017 with the Anti-Doping Appeal Panel of India (ADAPI). The Athlete asserted that the positive test was caused by contaminated supplements and in support he had produced a test report from a Laboratory.
The Appeal Panel established that the filed test report was insufficient and unreliable, that the Athlete had failed to mention the supplements in question on the Doping Control Form and that the prohibited substance was used prior to the Doping Control.
Therefore on 27 August 2018 the Anti-Doping Appeal Panel decides to dismiss the Athlete’s appeal and to uphold the ADDPI decision of 5 May 2018.
