A Delhi court today framed charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and nine others for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case.
Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur framed charges under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against Kalmadi and other accused, including OC Secretary-General Lalit Bhanot, in the case.
Besides cheating and criminal conspiracy, the accused have also been charged with offences relating to forgery and use of forged documents as genuine, criminal intimidation, destruction of evidence of the IPC and Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) (criminal misconduct by public servants) of the PC Act.
After framing of charges, the court fixed February 20 for recording of evidence in the case.
The judge said the evidence will be recorded on a day-to-day basis barring Monday and Friday.
The accused were chargesheeted by the CBI for “illegally” awarding a contract to install Timing, Scoring and Results (TSR) system for the 2010 CWG to Swiss Timing at inflated rates causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.
Besides Kalmadi and Bhanot, among the other accused in the case are OC’s former Director-General V. K. Verma, former Director-General (Procurement) Surjit Lal, former Joint Director-General (Sports) A. S. V. Prasad and former Treasurer M. Jayachandran. They are no more associated with the sporting body.
The court had on December 21, 2012, passed the order on framing of charges under various provisions of the IPC and the PC Act against Kalmadi and nine other accused in the case.
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People of india are not interest to know , now how much time Mr suresh kalmadi & others shall stay in the Jail, people of india are interested in recovery of loss of billions of public money which is siphoned off
Big scams have taken place under the nose of govt, yet highlighted by CAG, CVC, LOKAYUKTA
Recent case of Mr Bastawade who is traced out by times now tv reveals working og our intelligence agencies
The highest profile criminals all across India almost always escaped any kind of punishment since independence.
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