Ram Singh remanded in police custody

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Olympic medallist Vijender Kumar's sparring partner and international boxer Ram Singh was on Thursday sent to three-day police custody by a Fatehgarh Sahib court, a day after he was arrested in the Rs 130-crore drug haul. Fatehgarh Sahib police had demanded a seven-day remand. "We need his (Ram's) custodial interrogation to know the missing links in the drug racket and involvement of other people who have either not yet confessed to the crime or are not traceable," said Fatehgarh Sahib senior superintendent of police Hardyal Singh Mann.Ram Singh was brought to the court of chief judicial magistrate Jaspinder Singh at 4.30pm and was sent to the police custody till April 7.The police had arrested Ram Singh on Wednesday, claiming that his brother-in-law Ravicharan Deol was a proclaimed offender in the drug trafficking and that the boxer was in constant touch with him. He was booked on March 3 under Sections 21/61/85 of the NDPS Act, Arms Act and IPC Section 420 by the Fatehgarh Sahib police along with 16 others, including druglord Anoop Singh Kahlon.His parents, who were present outside the court, again denied their son's involvement. "He only knew Kahlon as an NRI man who could offer him a job in Canada or US. Neither Ram nor Vijender had ever shown a liking for cigarettes or any drug available in the state," Ram's father Randhir Singh told TOI.During his interrogation by the cops between March 6 and March 10, he had made several confessions before the cops and media that he and Vijender used to snort heroin, which was procured from Kahlon and his aide Rocky.Mann said there was enough evidence to show Ram Singh's culpability in the drug racket and the search was on to locate Deol.Ram Singh was dismissed from his job as a Punjab police head constable on March 30.