CWG: Court to frame charges against Kalmadi & others tomorrow

CWG: Court to frame charges against Kalmadi & others tomorrow

A Delhi court is likely to frame

charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman

Suresh Kalmadi and others tomorrow 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 had on January 10 posted

for tomorrow the framing of charges in the case also involving

former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot as an accused.

          The court had on December 21, 2012 passed the order on

framing of charges under various provisions of the IPC and the

Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against Kalmadi and nine

other accused in the case.

            Besides cheating and conspiracy, the accused will also be

charged with the offences of forgery under the IPC and

criminal misconduct by public servants under the PC Act.

            "Charges under section 120B (criminal conspiracy), read

with 201 (destruction of evidence), 420 (cheating), 467, 468,

471 (relating to forgery), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the

IPC and section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) (criminal

misconduct by public servants) of the PC Act is ordered to be

framed against all the accused," the court had said.

            The accused have been 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 an

inflated rates causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the

public exchequer.

            Besides Kalmadi and Bhanot, 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.