Tuesday, December 25, 2012

CWG Scam : Kalmadi to be tried in graft case from Jan 10

New Delhi: Former CWG organizing committee chief Suresh Kalmadi will face trial before a Delhi court for allegedly abusing his office and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related graft case. On Friday, the court ordered framing of cheating and conspiracy charges against him.

Special CBI judge Talwant Singh fixed January 10 for formal framing of charges against Kalmadi and 10 others. Besides the politician, former OC secretary-general Lalit Bhanot and nine others have been charged with offences of forgery under the Indian Penal Code and criminal misconduct by public servants under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The case relates to illegally awarding a contract to Swiss Timing Omega, causing a huge loss to the exchequer.

‘Kalmadi chose Swiss Timing even before the bid’
New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing the CWG scam case on Friday said “prima facie” charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and for offences under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act are made out against eight accused persons, including Suresh Kalmadi, and three companies. “Charges under section 120B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (destruction of evidence), 420 (cheating), 467, 468, 471 (relating to forgery), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) (criminal misconduct by public servants) of the PC Act are ordered to be framed against all the accused,” the court said.

Kalmadi and the others have been chargesheeted by the CBI for “illegally” awarding a contract to install Timing, Scoring and Results (TSR) system for the 2010 CWG to Swiss Timing at inflated rates. Among the accused are OC director general V K Verma, director general (procurement) Surjit Lal, joint director general (sports) A S V Prasad and treasurer M Jeychandran.

Promoters of two construction companies—P D Arya and A K Madan of Faridabad-based Gem International and A K Reddy of Hyderabad-based AKR Constructions—are also accused in the case along with Swiss Timing Omega.

The CBI had alleged that Kalmadi and the others rejected Spanish firm MSL’s much lower bid of Rs 62 crore and awarded the contract to Swiss Timing Omega, causing a Rs 90 crore loss. During the arguments on charges, the CBI had contended that Kalmadi and the others had decided to award the contract to Swiss Timing even before the firm bid for it. It added that for TSR installation, two bids had been received—one from Swiss Timing and the other from MSL Spain—and the same were opened on November 4, 2009, but Kalmadi and Verma had announced in a meeting on October 12, 2009, itself that the contract would be given to Swiss Timing.
Courtesy:
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
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