When the world was reeling under the pandemic, ace kabaddi player Ajay Thakur was caught in the crossfire between commitment to his job as a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and the anti-doping rule that required his “whereabouts’’.
His job in the Intelligence department of the police force, and on security duty with VIPs, forced him to keep his whereabouts confidential. But, being part of the Registered Testing Pool for anti-doping, he was required to disclose his location.