New Delhi: Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi will now have to face volley of questions by the Enforcement Directorate with a Delhi court on Friday allowing the agency to interrogate him in connection with the money laundering case registered by it. Besides Kalmadi, Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh also allowed the ED to question former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, OC Joint Director General (Sport) A S...
08:26 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi and eight others have been chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Time Scoring and Results scam. The CBI called Kalmadi as the "main accused" in a corruption case relating to irregularities in awarding the Time Scoring and Results contract to Swiss Timing Omega. "Kalmadi is the main accused as he was the person with all supreme powers. He...
03:55 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhannot and VK Verma, all accused of pushing for a private firm Swiss Timing for supplying Timing Scoring and Results system for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), are now behind the bars. They stand accused ignoring the bid claims of this contract to MSL SPAIN, a Spanish firm, at much lower prices. But now, CNN-IBN has accessed a confidential email, written by Chairman of Technical Committee,...
09:42 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: CBI may file the first charge sheet in the Commonwealth Games scam on Friday against Suresh Kalmadi and other former officials of the Organising Committee with the agency claiming to have enough evidence to nail them for alleged bunglings in a Rs 141 crore contract. The agency may name sacked OC chairman Kalmadi along with the then officials; Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, Director General V K Verma, Deputy...
08:04 PM, May 19, 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: 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: "Suresh Kalmadi's conduct has tarnished the image of the country," was how CBI described him while opposing the bail plea of the former CWG Organising Committee chief arrested on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in the award of games related contracts. "We are opposing the bail plea (of Kalmadi) as other co-accused in this case had already been denied bail by this court. Investigation is going on....
05:53 PM, May 16, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday deferred to May 13 the hearing on the bail plea of former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi. Special Judge Talwant Singh said "the arguments on the application will be heard May 13th". Kalmadi had been first sent to eight days police custody on April 26 on charges of conspiracy and cheating under the Prevention of Corruption Act, and then for 14...
03:19 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: He slept in a separate cell, attended a roll call at 6 am, stood in queue for breakfast, watched some TV and at times conversed with two other inmates. Suresh Kalmadi, the latest high-profile entrant at Tihar Central Jail, is not getting any VIP treatment in India's largest prison and has made no special requests either, authorities said Thursday. Kalmadi, an MP and former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee...
11:15 AM, May 06, 2011
New Delhi: Tihar's glamour quotient is at an all time high and now it just got bigger! The former OC chief is the latest VIP entrant in Asia's largest prison. Tihar Jail, that is Suresh Kalmadi's new address. Kalmadi wiill be lodged in Jail number 4 alongwith two of the other accused who were sent to 14 days of judicial custody. Tihar authorities say that they will be treated like...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: Tihar's glamour quotient is at an all time high and now it just got bigger! The former OC chief is the latest VIP entrant in Asia's largest prison. Tihar Jail, that is Suresh Kalmadi's new address. Kalmadi wiill be lodged in Jail number 4 alongwith two of the other accused who were sent to 14 days of judicial custody. Tihar authorities say that they will be treated like...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday sent sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi to 14 days of judicial custody in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring Equipment scam case. Surjit Lal and ASV Prasad, who have also been arrested in the same case, have also been sent to judicial custody till May 18. The trio will be kept at the Tihar Jail in New Delhi. Kalmadis lawyer Hitesh...
03:42 PM, May 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Shunglu Committee has found that senior officials of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee "pre-decided" to choose a Swiss firm for giving the Timing, Scoring and Result (TSR) project "prior to the award of contract". In its report, the Committee was critical on the role of top OC brass for manipulating tender process in the Rs 141 crore-controversial contract. The CBI is currently probing the contract for alleged financial...
01:16 PM, May 01, 2011
Cyrus Broacha also talks about Suresh Kalmadi's arrest and the slipper thrown at him. ...
12:47 PM, May 01, 2011
Pune: With scam-tainted MP Suresh Kalmadi disowned by Congress, the political void caused by his absence in Pune politics which he dictated for over a decade, has left the party workers confused as they approach the upcoming civic elections in the cultural capital of Maharashtra. Notwithstanding the factional discontent which he generated because of his style of functioning, the suspended Congress MP - three-time Lok Sabha member from Pune -...
09:59 AM, Apr 30, 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: The CEO of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee told CNN-IBN that he had no option but to sign the inflated deals since most deals and purchases were left for the last moment. Talking to CNN-IBN, Jarnail Singh said, "In the TSR contract, when I came into the scene, it was too late. At that stage, if I hadn't approved it, it would have put the games delivery at...
07:27 AM, Apr 29, 2011
PM nominated CWG OC CEO Jarnail Singh talks to Rajdeep Sardesai about the TSR deal. ...
12:21 AM, 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
