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
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
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 Election Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a complaint under FEMA against sacked CWG Organising Committee (OC) Chief Suresh Kalmadi and 4 others in the Queens Baton Rally case. The complaint is in connection with financial irregularities in the payments made to a London based firm AM Films. The complaint points to foreign exchange violations, unauthorised payments and over invoicing to to the tune of Rs 4.6 crore....
08:59 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy surrounding the continuation of Commonwealth Games scams accused Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhanot and VK Verma in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) had got murkier. The Ethics Commission passed an order suspending Kalmadi, Bhanot and Verma. But the order had been passed by a body that has been reportedly disbanded by the IOA. So is the Ethics Commission's order suspending Kalmadi, Bhanot and Verma still valid? Why ...
11:45 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has suspended and served a show cause notice to former Commonwealth Games (CWG) OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi. CNN-IBN accessed a copy of an interim suspension order passed by the Ethics Commission against Suresh Kalmadi, Former Secretary-General of CWG OC Lalit Bhanot and and former Director-General VK Verma. However, sources told CNN-IBN that Kalmadi will challenge the order. The order is dated December 6,...
05:53 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has suspended and served a show cause notice to former Commonwealth Games (CWG) OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi. CNN-IBN accessed a copy of an interim suspension order passed by the Ethics Commission against Suresh Kalmadi, Former Secretary-General of CWG OC Lalit Bhanot and and former Director-General VK Verma. The order is dated December 6, 2011 but is being served against them now as all...
01:16 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: "Law has taken its course," that is how Congress reacted on Thursday to Delhi High Court granting bail to Suresh Kalmadi in a 2010 Games-related graft case. "I do not want to say anything; law has taken its course. It is the process of law. We never interfere in the process of law. I want to say only this much," party spokesman Rashid Alvi told reporters when asked...
03:41 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Commonewealth Games (CWG) OC Chief Suresh Kalmadi on a surety of Rs 5 lakh after nine months who is an accused in the case pertaining to the mega-sporting event held in New Delhi in 2010. The HC also granted bail to former director general of CWG VK Verma. Kalmadi, Verma and nine others have been accused of allegedly...
10:50 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: The bail plea of former Director of Commonwealth Games OC VK Verma, arrested for his alleged role in awarding a games contract to a Swiss firm at inflated rates, was dismissed by a Delhi court on Saturday. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh dismissed Verma's bail application on the ground that he can influence witnesses if released on bail. Verma, while seeking bail, had told the court that "whatever...
07:11 PM, Sep 03, 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: Suresh Kalmadi, the sacked chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, is to be chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Time Scoring and Result (TSR) scam. Attacked in the court premises earlier, the countdown has begun for Suresh Kalmadi to spend another few months in Tihar jail. CNN-IBN has learnt that the CBI will file its chargesheet against Kalmadi on May 23, unlike TS Darbari...
07:59 PM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of two top CWG Organising Committee officials arrested in connection with alleged irregularities in awarding a Rs 107 crore contract to a Swiss firm. OC's former Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and its ex-Director General VK Verma had moved their bail plea saying CBI had deliberately added harsher penal provision of section 467 (forgery of valuable security) of the IPC...
05:38 PM, Apr 29, 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
Lalit Bhanot and VK Verma were involved in time scoring and records device purchase scam. ...
06:55 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: Commonwealth Games Organising Committee's former secretary-general Lalit Bhanot and former director-general VK Verma have been sent to 14 days of judicial custody by a Delhi court on Tuesday. The duo will be lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail till March 15. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not ask for further remand for Bhanot and Verma. The investigative agency told Special Judge Talwant Singh that it does not...
02:23 PM, Mar 01, 2011
New Delhi: Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising secretary Suresh Kalmadi in a no-holds-barred interview to CNN-IBN has hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and former sports minister MS Gill. Kalmadi says investigating agencies must summon Sheila Dikshit, MS Gill and Jaipal Reddy. He has asked why the Delhi Chief Minister says that all scams were in the OC even before the games began. Kalmadi claimed the Prime Minister supported...
09:09 PM, Feb 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee general secretary Lalit Bhanot and former director general VK Verma have been sent to five days of police custody. The duo, considered to be very close to sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, was sent to police custody on Thursday by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge Talwant Singh. They were arrested on Wednesday by the CBI in connection with...
04:24 PM, Feb 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee general secretary Lalit Bhanot and former director general VK Verma have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with irregularities in the Rs 107 crore time-keeping contract awarded to Swiss company Omega for the Games. The Organising Committee got bidding from two companies, Omega and MS Spain and rates offered by the latter were much lower. But the Organising...
04:16 PM, Feb 23, 2011
