‘Kalmadi forced me to select Swiss Timing for CWG deal’
13 March 2013 6:28 AM IST
A former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CWG OC) official on Tuesday told a Delhi court that he was pressurised by Suresh Kalmadi and another accused to reject the bid of Spain’s MSL and select Swiss Timing.
Deposing as prosecution witness, Virender Kumar Saksena, who was then organising committee’s additional director general (Revenue), said the sacked CWG OC chairman Kalmadi, facing trial on corruption and other charges, had told him and other officials in a meeting that ‘Swiss Timing should be selected’. According to him, organising committee’s director general V K Verma, co-accused in the case, had called him for a meeting and had tried to convince him why only Swiss Timing, another accused, qualifies the pre qualification bid for the contract of Timing Scoring and Result (TSR) system.
‘We were addressed by both the chairman and the DG. The chairman told us that Swiss Timing should be selected. The DG observed that the committee members knew how this is to be done,’ Saksena told Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur.
‘Somewhere the pressure kept building upon me to reject MSL,’ he said. Kalmadi, Verma and nine others are facing trial for allegedly awarding of a contract at inflated rates causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore.
Deposing as prosecution witness, Virender Kumar Saksena, who was then organising committee’s additional director general (Revenue), said the sacked CWG OC chairman Kalmadi, facing trial on corruption and other charges, had told him and other officials in a meeting that ‘Swiss Timing should be selected’. According to him, organising committee’s director general V K Verma, co-accused in the case, had called him for a meeting and had tried to convince him why only Swiss Timing, another accused, qualifies the pre qualification bid for the contract of Timing Scoring and Result (TSR) system.
‘We were addressed by both the chairman and the DG. The chairman told us that Swiss Timing should be selected. The DG observed that the committee members knew how this is to be done,’ Saksena told Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur.
‘Somewhere the pressure kept building upon me to reject MSL,’ he said. Kalmadi, Verma and nine others are facing trial for allegedly awarding of a contract at inflated rates causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore.
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