COMMONWEALTH Games officials reportedly confiscated needles and syringes from the quarters of Team India athletes on three separate occasions.
Staff at the athletes' village in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, found the items in the room of a para-athlete, in the lounge and then in a room occupied by wrestlers after they had gone home, according to reports in the Times of India yesterday.
The team is said to have received a warning about violating a rule which bans such items being brought into the compound.
None of its athletes tested positive for banned substances during the games.
However, the find is an embarrassment for the team which won 64 medals and finished fifth in the table, a place behind Scotland.
The team's chef de mission Raj Singh told the newspaper yesterday the syringes were used to inject multi-vitamins and insisted the athletes had not violated any rules.
He added that the Commonwealth medical commission had given them a "clean chit".
The report alleged that other syringes were confiscated after the commission made a further raid, with vials of two types of multi-vitamins,which are said have a similar effect on athletes' feelings of well-being as a placebo.
Mr Singh reportedly added that the team should have taken more care in preventing the items from coming into the village.
He told The Times of India: "They [the athletes] ought to have taken more responsibility. After the first incident, we conduct raids in some of the rooms.
"However, it is not humanly possible for a small team to keep an eye on the entire contingent.
"As it is, the syringes were found in the wrestlers' room after they had left for India.
All injections during the Games had to be medically justified and declared in writing.
Nobody was available for comment from Glasgow 2014 or the Commonwealth Games Federation.
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