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11:52 PM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: The VIP accused in the CWG scam are unlikely to enjoy VIP treatment hereon, after Tihar Jail authorities on Monday admitted that VIP inmates were getting special privileges. "Found former OC chief Suresh Kalmadi having tea and snacks with the jail superitendant at Jail No. 4 where he is lodged. This happened on 30th June," said Tihar Jail DIG Prisons RN Sharma. Nearly a week after reports of...
10:54 PM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: Days after a trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg's visit to Tihar brought to light special benefits being extended to certain high profile inmates including Suresh Kalmadi, an internal probe has confirmed that jail norms were violated by some officials. The report by the trial court judge had indicated that some inmates were getting more privileges than others. And some reports claimed that the jail superintendent S C...
07:19 AM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: Three Union Sports Ministers, who held charge since 2004, had repeatedly warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the structure and working of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and its chief Suresh Kalmadi, letters accessed by an RTI activist reveal. While late Sunil Dutt had said that the Organising Committee should be headed by a "Government nominee" like Sports Minister, his successor Mani Shanker Aiyar had criticised it for "squandering"...
02:33 PM, Jul 03, 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: Top CWG Organising Committee officials, including its chairman Suresh Kalmadi, had decided to award the contract for Timing, Scoring and Result (TSR) system to Swiss company Omega much before the firm had applied for the same, a senior civil servant has told the CBI. Rahul Bhatnagar, currently working as Joint Secretary (International Sports Division) in Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, told the CBI that top OC officials...
11:31 AM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: Is former CWG Chief Kalmadi enjoying special treatment in Tihar jail? Reacting to news reports, Tihar jail authorities said that they were just being courteous by offering a cup of tea to Kalmadi while he was waiting to be taken to a hospital for a medical check up. On Thursday, a trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg had found Kalmadi having tea and snacks with the jail superintendent...
09:58 PM, Jul 02, 2011
New Delhi: Tihar Prison authorities on Saturday ordered an inquiry into reports claiming that sacked CWG organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi is getting special treatment inside the jail premises. Jail Superintendent S C Bharadwaj, in whose room Kalmadi was reportedly found having tea by inspecting trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg during a surprise visit to the jail on June 30, has also been transferred to Port Blair but the...
05:27 PM, Jul 02, 2011
New Delhi: High-profile Commonwealth Games accused Suresh Kalmadi is in trouble for being given preferential treatment at Delhi's Tihar jail. Sources have told CNN-IBN that jail rules were bent to help Suresh Kalmadi - accused of misappropriation of funds in the Commonwealth Games - have tea and biscuits with the jail superintendent in his chamber. The jail Superintendent was relieved from his position on Friday after the incident came to...
11:16 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Jamshedpur: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday claimed that former Indian Olympics Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi was not the lone accused in the CWG scam and several other government departments were equally responsible for it. Addressing a public meeting in support of party candidate-cum-state unit president Dineshanand Goswami for the upcoming Jamshedpur parliamentary by-election, Gadkari said Kalmadi had only Rs 1,600 crore budget and he received the first advance...
11:12 PM, Jun 23, 2011
New Delhi: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday dismissed the bail plea of former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi and co-accused ASV Prasad in a corruption case related to the mega sporting event. Special judge Talwant Singh, while hearing Kalmadi's bail application, said allegations against him were of serious nature, and "he has caused loss to the government of India." Prasad is a...
02:52 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday questioned jailed former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and two others in connection with the money laundering case registered by it in conduct of the sporting event 2010. A preliminary statement of Kalmadi was recorded by the officials of the ED at Tihar prisons here under the provisions of the Prevention of the Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Statements of two other...
07:44 PM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday deferred till June 6 the hearing on bail plea of former CWG Organising Committee's Deputy Director General Surjeet Lal, arrested for his alleged role in awarding a Games-related contract to a Swiss firm at an exorbitant cost. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh posted the matter for June 6 after Lal's counsel pleaded before the court that he would take up the arguments on...
06:18 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Organisation Committee has sent its point-wise replies to the Sports Ministry on the Shunglu Committee findings seeking to put the blame on jailed former OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi and other officials for large-scale irregularities. Sources said that the two-volume reply in about 1,000 pages has been sent and former top officials, including Kalmadi, have been held responsible on issues like ticketing, illegally inflated budgeting, Beijing...
12:45 PM, May 29, 2011
Mumbai: Hasan ali's co-accused in the money laundering case Kashinath Tapuriah had earlier told Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogators about Ali's political connections in an interview to CNN-IBN. The 74-year-old Kolkata-based businessman has now claimed Hasan Ali has links to many more politicians - Renuka Choudhary and Suresh Kalmadi from the Congress to former Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada. The 12 statements of Tapuriah that have been recorded and several even...
08:05 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: Disgraced CWG OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused of irregularities in TSR scam, on Thursday tried to shift the blame for award of the contract to OC CEO Jarnail Singh insisting that he was aware of the contract and was informed at all stages of decision. Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, pressing for bail to Kalmadi, told Special CBI Jugde Talwant Singh that the award of TSR contract was always...
06:44 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman and CWG scam accused Suresh Kalmadi's bail plea will come up for hearing on Thursday. It was postponed on Saturday after Kalmadi claimed to include 'new facts' in the Swiss Timing and Scoring contract that would prove his innocence. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh issued orders to delay the bail plea. CBI has plans to file a supplementary chargesheet so that certain...
10:11 AM, May 26, 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: Dogged by scams and unable to move ahead on economic reforms in a big way, the UPA government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh steps into the third year of its second term on Sunday, probably hoping to come out of its shackles. For 79-year old Singh, who got to the Prime Minister's seat after Sonia Gandhi refused to assume the office in the summer of 2004, it...
04:51 PM, May 21, 2011
