New Delhi: Modifying a trial court order, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the Investigating Officer and the Public Prosecutor can interview the prosecution witnesses "before hand" in the Commonwealth Games-related graft case involving sacked Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi. Justice Kailash Gambhir said, "The order is modified to the extent that the duo can interview the prosecution witnesses before hand."
The court modified the trial court's March 14 order which had barred both Investigating Officer (IO) and Public Prosecutor (PP) from having access to the prosecution witnesses who are yet to be examined. The court also issued notices to Kalmadi and other accused in the case and sought their replies by July 12 on the CBI's plea challenging the special court's order.
During arguments, CBI Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan cited a Supreme Court ruling and said that PPs have the right to interview the witnesses to know what stand they have to adopt while recording of their statement. He also said that "by this order the (trial) court is facilitating witnesses to turn hostile."
In its plea, CBI informed the high court that so far 10 out of 64 prosecution witnesses have been examined in the day-to-day trial of the case. Kalmadi's counsel, however, argued that trial court had questioned the conduct of PP and alleged that some witnesses were seen in the company of IO and PP in the court on the date of their examination....
03:16 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday questioned sacked CWG organizing committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and recorded his statement in connection with its probe into alleged money laundering in the run up to the 2010 sporting extravaganza. The agency questioned Kalmadi for the second time in less than a month. He was questioned in a separate case of alleged forex violations on March 25 by the agency. Kalmadi has denied...
03:56 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Maharashtra Legislature has indicted former Indian Olympic Association president (IOA) Suresh Kalmadi for irregularities in organising the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008 at Pune and asked the state government to file a criminal case against him. The PAC report, which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, also asked the government to submit an action taken report (ATR) to the committee within...
05:51 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: 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...
12:49 PM, Mar 31, 2013
New Delhi: Sacked CWG organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was on Monday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe into alleged forex violations in the run up to the 2010 sporting extravaganza. The agency has filed a case under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) with regard to the Queen's Baton Relay that happened in London before the games and other funds that were brought in the country...
08:12 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Switzerland-based Swiss Timing Ltd has been put on trial for allegedly conspiring and cheating the exchequer in a Commonwealth Games scam case, involving Suresh Kalmadi and nine others, by a Delhi court which also asked CBI to file a chargesheet against the firm's 3 senior officials. ...
06:29 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Trial in a Commonwealth Games related case involving Suresh Kalmadi and nine others will commence on Wednesday in a Delhi court which had invoked charges of criminal conspiracy, forgery, cheating and other offences against them entailing maximum punishment of life term. ...
08:07 PM, Feb 19, 2013
A Delhi court dealing with a CWG related corruption case on Monday said two of the accused had paid Rs 71.73 lakh for actor Shilpa Shetty's performance in the closing ceremony of 2008 CWG Youth Games at Pune "merely to fulfil the last moment wish" of Suresh Kalmadi. ...
09:06 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Former Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi still remains defiant and unwilling to let go of his sporting appointments. Abhay Singh Chautala's elevation to the presidency of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) may not have had the sanction of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) but it officially ended Kalmadi's 16-year reign as the undisputed boss of Indian sports. ...
07:29 AM, Feb 05, 2013
CBI faces challenge of proving direct link between Suresh Kalmadi, Swiss Timing. Omar Abdullah assures security to girl band in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
11:55 PM, Feb 04, 2013
A special CBI court on Monday framed charges against Suresh Kalmadi for allegedly favouring Swiss Timing in the run up to the Commonwealth Games and causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the exchequer. ...
11:47 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday told CNN-IBN that the state will protect the girls if they wanted to continue performing. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Suresh Kalmadi, who has been chargesheeted by the CBI in CWG scam, has been heading the Asian Athletics Association since 2000. ...
08:32 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Tough times are ahead for the man who once headed one of India's top sporting bodies. A special CBI court on Monday framed charges against Suresh Kalmadi for allegedly favouring Swiss Timing in the run up to the Commonwealth Games and causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the exchequer. ...
07:44 PM, Feb 04, 2013
While a Central Bureau of Investigation court in Delhi framed charges against sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairperson Suresh Kalmadi and 9 others in the TSR scam, the Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that the CBI was silent on Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's role. Kalmadi has pleaded not guilty in the case. ...
12:51 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Over two years after the Commonwealth Games, a Delhi court is framed charges against sacked organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and nine others in the TSR scam first reported by CNN-IBN. Kalmadi pleaded not guilty in the court. All the accused in the case are out on bail. ...
10:48 AM, Feb 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
Former CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi will face trial in a Delhi court on Thursday in the Commonwealth Games Scam. Kalmadi has been charged with cheating and conspiracy after allegedly abusing his office and causing a loss over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer ...
10:32 AM, Jan 10, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday ordered framing of charges against sacked Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi and 10 others in the CWG scam case. All the accused will be charged with the offence of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and also under Prevention of Corruption Act. Passing the order, Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh fixed January 10 as the deadline for formally framing charges against all the accused in...
11:18 AM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday will pronounce its order on framing of charges against former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and 10 others in a games-related graft case. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh had on November 21 slated for Friday the pronouncement of order on charges in the case also involving former CWG OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot as an accused in the case. Besides...
06:27 PM, Dec 20, 2012
