New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday asked the CBI to respond to sacked Commonwealth Games committee chief Suresh Kalmadi's plea to clarify if the agency's probe into a games-related contract, in which he has been arrested, is complete or not. Kalmadi's plea to Special Judge Talwant Singh sought the court's direction to the CBI to "clarify if the continuing further probe to unearth a larger conspiracy, to identify the...
06:14 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Umaria: Alleging that the Congress-led UPA government was neck deep in corruption, BJP leader LK Advani on Friday said that the day was not far when the government would have to call its Cabinet meeting in Tihar Jail. "It is really unfortunate for Indian democracy that the UPA ministers, neck deep in corruption, are going to jail. It appears that the sad day is not far when the UPA government...
08:17 AM, Oct 15, 2011
New Delhi: Congress MP and sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi's judicial custody ends on Thursday. Kalmadi's defence team will present its remaining arguments in a Delhi court on Thursday. Kalmadi and eight others were arrested for their alleged role in irregularities in awarding of games-related contracts. The 67-year-old MP is facing criminal proceedings for his alleged role in awarding a lucrative Commonwealth Games contract to a Swiss...
08:28 AM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: What do BSP's Mayawati, Congress' Janardhan Dwivedi, BJP's Shahnawaz Husain and jailed Mohd Shahabuddin have in common? According to an RTI reply, they are among the 75 MPs who have bought confiscated arms in the past 25 years. While the Arminious and Erma revolvers were a hit among the VIPs during the early 1990s, those from Webly replaced them in the late 1990s. However, the last decade saw...
01:42 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: The judicial custody of sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and his other associates, arrested for their alleged roles in irregular award of the Games-related contracts, was extended on Thursday till September 22 by a Delhi court. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh extended the judicial custody of Kalmadi and others, including former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, as they appeared before the court after expiry of...
08:32 PM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Tihar Jail is once again the centre of attention. Glamour quotient is at a high in Tihar Jail as it has never seen so many VIPs together and it now houses 2G accused A Raja, Sanjay Chandra, DMK MP Kanimozhi along with CWG accused Suresh Kalmadi and now cash-for-votes scam accused Amar Singh. Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is the sixth MP and the latest VIP entrant...
07:32 AM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, sent to judicial custody for his alleged role in the cash-for-votes scam, was lodged in jail number 3 of Tihar Prisons. He reached the jail premises at 6:25 pm and entered through Gate Number 4, sources said. He is the sixth MP to be lodged inside Tihar Prisons after Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, former telecom minister A Raja, sacked CWG OC chairman Suresh...
07:34 PM, Sep 06, 2011
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: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of sacked CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, a Lok Sabha MP, seeking permission to attend the ongoing Parliament session. "In view of the gravity of the offence and the allegation of huge magnitude, it would be totally inappropriate to grant him permission solely on the ground of freedom of speech inside the Parliament House, on the foundation that...
06:26 PM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare, who has been lodged in Tihar Jail after he was sent to seven days judicial custody on Tuesday, is in the same ward or cell as that of sacked CWG chief Suresh Kalmadi or former telecom minister A Raja. Anna has been kept in Jail No. 4, which is the same jail as that of Kalmadi, but not the same ward. There were reports...
07:43 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: It is the age old lure of the lal batti - the symbol of power and status. The country may be agitated over issues like rising inflation, land acquisition and assorted scams but our members of Parliament are vexed over just why they have been deprived of that red beacon. Led by Congress MP Avtar Singh Bhadana, a hundred legislators have signed a petition to the Chairman of...
08:21 PM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: In a fresh twist to the CWG-Suresh Kalmadi appointment controversy, CNN-IBN has accessed documents which suggest that Mike Fennel of the Commonwealth Games Federation pushed for Kalmadi as games Chief. The document states that an objection was raised by Commonwealth Games Federation in July 2003 about a government nominee being appointed as head of the Organising Committee (OC). In september 2003, a commonwealth games evaluation commission came to...
08:47 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken's statement on appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as OC Chairman created pandemonium inside Parliament and outside as well on Tuesday as the BJP cornered the UPA Government on the issue of corruption in the Commonwealth Games. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitely and Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha led the Opposition's charge inside Parliament. It all started in Rajya Sabha at 12 noon...
10:50 PM, Aug 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blamed the United Progressive Alliance Government for the Commonwealth Games mess and claimed that its ministers were misleading the country. Starting the debate on the Comptroller and Auditor General report on the Games BJP MP Arun Jaitley alleged that Sports Minister Ajay Maken's defence of the Government "conceals more and reveals less". "A major international games event became the largest scandal. It's...
12:31 PM, Aug 09, 2011
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Recently one of the VIP inmates at Tihar claimed that he had dementia and thus was unable to remember his actions for the period in ...
12:03 PM, Aug 09, 2011
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government has bowed to Opposition's pressure and agreed to a debate in the Lok Sabha on Sports Minister Ajay Maken's statement in Parliament on the National Democratic Alliance government's role in the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirti Azad will initiate the debate in the Lok Sabha on the issue. Earlier, both the...
03:23 PM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: In view of complaints against the CWG Organising Committee headed by Suresh Kalmadi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was open to an idea of restructuring it in 2007, but it did not materialise as no concrete proposal came forth. Sports Minister Ajay Maken suggested this as he insisted that nothing could be done about Kalmadi because he had been elected OC Chairman by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and...
11:03 AM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: Armed with reports stating massive corruption, the BJP has approached the CBI to register cases of graft and conspiracy in alleged irregularities worth several crores of rupees in construction of CWG stadia. A complaint claiming financial bungling and other irregularities have been given by BJP's RTI Cell to CBI Director AP Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Comptroller and Auditor General VK Shunglu for necessary action. It...
10:12 AM, Aug 07, 2011
Guwahati: Demanding Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's resignation after her reported indictment in the CAG report on Commonwealth Games scam, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday accused the Congress of "maintaining double standards and going on the overdrive to save her". "In Karnataka when the Lokayukta in his report (on illegal mining) indicted Yeddyurappa, the Congress demanded his resignation despite us asking him to resign," Gadkari told reporters in Guwahati....
03:36 PM, Aug 06, 2011
