CBI has forwarded to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) the summons to be served abroad to three officials of Switzerland-based Swiss Timing Limited for their alleged role in a 2010 Commonwealth Games related corruption case in which Suresh Kalmadi among others is facing trial. The agency has filed the copy of the March 26 letter sent to the MHA before a Delhi court after it had directed the CBI...
12:49 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The 68-year-old passed away in Sydney on Sunday after complications following surgery. ...
12:18 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Over two years after the Commonwealth Games, a Delhi court is likely to frame charges against sacked organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and nine others in the TSR scam first reported by CNN-IBN. Kalmadi, Lalit Bhanot, VK Verma and others have been charged with cheating, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and the Prevention of Corruption Act. ...
08:22 AM, Feb 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested Nachiketa Kapur, a key aide of Suresh Kalmadi, the prime accused in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) scam. Reports say that Kapur allegedly used fake Delhi University certificates to get the post of Director in the CWG Organising Committee. Kapur reportedly worked with the CWG till April 2010. The Games were held in October 2010. The Delhi Police Crime Branch has registered a case...
08:50 AM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: Officials of 2010 Commonwealth Games organising committee had allegedly misused the name of Indian High Commission in the UK to award the contract of work related to Queen's Baton Relay, an event in the run up to the Games, to an accused firm owned by a London- based businessman. CBI, which had filed the chargesheet in connection with the QBR case, alleged work of hiring of transportation was...
10:12 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Sebastian Coe, Chief of the Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympics at London, has said that Suresh Kalmadi's visit was an issue that India needed to sort out. ...
09:48 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the 2010 Commonwealth Games a "nightmare", Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi on Friday said the event is being remembered more for its controversies, which denied the nation the pride it got from the performance of its athletes. "What a nightmare it was, something we should have been proud of, that pride was denied to the nation... Unfortunately we did not get any time to bask in the...
10:37 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in New Delhi has allowed former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi to go to Kazakhstan for attending the Asian Atheletics Association Council meeting to be held April 27. Special Judge Talwant Singh allowed Kalmadi and his aide, Lalit Bhanot to attend the meeting of the 73rd Asian Athletics Association Council, which is going to take place...
05:07 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday decided to frame charges against seven persons, including four MCD officials and a firm for their alleged roles in the CWG street lighting scam, on February 27, saying it has found prima facie evidence against them. Special CBI judge Pradeep Chaddah said a prima facie case exists against the accused persons and "let the charges be framed accordingly". The persons who face the...
05:35 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describing his predecessor Mani Shankar Aiyar as malicious and irresponsible. The letter containing all these adjectives was sent to the Prime Minister after he wanted to know the basis of all the letters of complaint written by Aiyar as sports minister against the organisation of Common Wealth Games (CWG). Maken wrote, "Opposition to organisation of CWG from Mr...
09:38 AM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi's elevation as Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief is proving to be an embarrassment for both the Congress and the BJP. For the past 24 hours, sports minister Ajay Maken has been trying his best to lay the entire responsibility for appointment Suresh Kalmadi as OC chairman on the NDA. "It's the city government that signs the host city contract. The national Government never signs on the...
06:54 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Already under scanner for irregularities worth crores of rupees, the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is fighting 14 legal cases filed by several firms and its former employees seeking their dues. According to OC officials, these cases related to the finance department, workforce, catering, merchandising unit, cleaning and waste management units, technology department and other works connected with organising of the Games. While some have gone to courts to...
09:03 AM, Jul 10, 2011
New Delhi: Former Secretary General of CWG Organising Committee Lalit Bhanot, arrested for his alleged role in a scam, flouted the standard procedures to be followed for drafting minutes of the Committee's meeting on purchasing of equipment, a senior OC official has told CBI. In his statement to the CBI, OC Deputy Director General (Sports) Gurdyal Singh Bawa, who has been arrayed as one of the prosecution witnesses, said Bhanot...
11:49 AM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday decided to hear the bail plea of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee former treasurer M Jaychandran, arrested for his alleged role in awarding a contract to a Swiss firm at an exorbitant cost, on June 13. While slating June 13 to hear Jaychandran's bail plea, Special Judge Talwant Singh also extended his judicial custody till July 14. The court decided to hear Jaychandran's bail...
06:08 PM, Jun 10, 2011
New Delhi: The authorised representatives of Swiss Timing, which had bagged the TSR contract for CWG 2010 were close to sacked OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi long before the CWG 2010 and had maneuvered TSR contract in favour of the Swiss firm, CBI has said in its charge sheet. In its first charge sheet indicting Kalmadi and ten others, CBI has said the two officials Anil Madan and Purushottam Dev Arya...
08:18 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, along with Lalit Bhanot and VK Verma, are expected to appear before the Patiala House Court in connection with the Commonwealth Games related scams. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on April 25 arrested Suresh Kalmadi for irregularities in the Commonwealth Games. He was arrested under Sections 120 B and 420 (criminal conspiracy and cheating) of the Indian Penal Code in...
10:02 AM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CWG) chief Suresh Kalmadi's judicial custody has been extended till June 1. Kalmadi has been arrested on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in the award of Games related contracts. His lawyers requested the court to allow him to appear through video conferencing. The additional district judge will take up this application on May 21. The judicial custody of OC Joint Director General...
02:18 PM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: After CNN-IBN revealed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's representative on the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Jarnail Singh, cleared the time scoring deal, the Central Burau of Investigatin (CBI) has come out to defend him. The CBI has said that Commonwealth games organising committee CEO Jarnail Singh's role was limited in the time scoring and result equipment scam. Jarnail Singh's role was limited to signing files, claimed the CBI. ...
08:50 PM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: After CNN-IBN revealed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's representative on the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Jarnail Singh, cleared the time scoring deal, the Central Burau of Investigatin (CBI) has come out to defend him. The CBI has said that Commonwealth games organising committee CEO Jarnail Singh's role was limited in the time scoring and result equipment scam. Jarnail Singh's role was limited to signing files, claimed the CBI....
08:50 PM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday for irregularities in a Commonwealth Games corruption case. Here is a timeline of events relating to the former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman's role in the investigations into the multi-crore scam. April 25: Kalmadi is arrested under Sections 120 B and 420 (criminal conspiracy and cheating) of the Indian Penal Code in the...
03:09 PM, Apr 25, 2011
