CWG scam: Court frames charges against Kalmadi
5 Feb 2013 7:17 AM IST
A Special court on Monday framed charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and eight others for alleged forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy in a Commonwealth Games related corruption case in which they have been charge sheeted 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.
CBI has accused them of rejecting Spanish firm MSL’s much lower bid of Rs 62 crore and awarding the contract to Swiss Timing Omega, causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.
Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur framed charges under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against the accused and fixed 20 February for recording of evidence. The 10 accused were present in the special CBI court when the judge framed the charges. All accused are at present out of prison on bail.
They have been charged of cheating, criminal conspiracy, 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.
The court also said two of the accused had paid Rs 71.73 lakh for cinestar Shilpa Shetty’s performance in the closing ceremony of 2008 CWG Youth Games at Pune ‘merely to fulfil the last moment wish’ of Kalmadi.
CBI has accused them of rejecting Spanish firm MSL’s much lower bid of Rs 62 crore and awarding the contract to Swiss Timing Omega, causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.
Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur framed charges under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against the accused and fixed 20 February for recording of evidence. The 10 accused were present in the special CBI court when the judge framed the charges. All accused are at present out of prison on bail.
They have been charged of cheating, criminal conspiracy, 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.
The court also said two of the accused had paid Rs 71.73 lakh for cinestar Shilpa Shetty’s performance in the closing ceremony of 2008 CWG Youth Games at Pune ‘merely to fulfil the last moment wish’ of Kalmadi.
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