CHANDIGARH: For the primary time, the Army has offered multi-drug tests for applicants collaborating in its recruitment drives in Haryana. Instead of checking drug abuse, the Army needs to fully forestall using performance-enhancing drugs by way of the applicants to clear physical staying power tests.
The Army additionally warned that any aspirants testing positive might be handed over the police for criminal action. Even chemists would be booked on foundation of the aspirant's commentary, for providing such performance-enhancing drugs.
The multi-drug take a look at would be carried out by way of the authorities simplest at the aspirants who qualify for the physical efficiency take a look at and not on all participants in the recruitment power. The specialized take a look at to test use of functionality enhancers is already used all the way through the Army recruitment drives in Punjab.
Earlier, there was once just a unmarried take a look at for Army aspirants in Haryana suspected of the use of such drugs all the way through the physical take a look at and there was once no provision of criminal action in opposition to them.
"Although Army aspirants in Haryana were not found to be drug addicts, some performance-enhancing medicines like Deca Durabolin and Mephentermine Sulphate injections and several other tablets are very popular among the candidates who are scared of losing the race," Colonel A Okay Pillai, director, Army Recruiting Office, Charkhi Dadri instructed TOI.
The Army additionally warned that any aspirants testing positive might be handed over the police for criminal action. Even chemists would be booked on foundation of the aspirant's commentary, for providing such performance-enhancing drugs.
The multi-drug take a look at would be carried out by way of the authorities simplest at the aspirants who qualify for the physical efficiency take a look at and not on all participants in the recruitment power. The specialized take a look at to test use of functionality enhancers is already used all the way through the Army recruitment drives in Punjab.
Earlier, there was once just a unmarried take a look at for Army aspirants in Haryana suspected of the use of such drugs all the way through the physical take a look at and there was once no provision of criminal action in opposition to them.
"Although Army aspirants in Haryana were not found to be drug addicts, some performance-enhancing medicines like Deca Durabolin and Mephentermine Sulphate injections and several other tablets are very popular among the candidates who are scared of losing the race," Colonel A Okay Pillai, director, Army Recruiting Office, Charkhi Dadri instructed TOI.
Army aspirants in Haryana to face multi-drug tests
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