A Delhi court on Monday Feb 4,2013 framed charges against sacked Commonwealth Games
(CWG) Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and 9 others for
allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs. 90 crore
to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case.
Besides Kalmadi and Bhanot, among the other accused in the case are OC’s
former director-general V.K. Verma, former director-general
(procurement) Surjit Lal, former joint director-general (sports) A.S.V.
Prasad and former treasurer M. Jayachandran.
The court, while ordering framing of charges against the accused, had
said that as Swiss Timing Omega, which was allegedly awarded the
contract at exorbitant rates, is not appearing in the court despite
proper service of summons, its “trial is separated.”
Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur framed charges under various provisions
of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act against Kalmadi and
other accused, including Organising Committee (OC) secretary-general
Lalit Bhanot, in the case.
Besides cheating and criminal conspiracy, the accused have also been
charged with offences relating to forgery and use of forged documents as
genuine, criminal intimidation, destruction of evidence of the IPC and
Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) (criminal misconduct by public
servants) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
After framing of charges, the court fixed February 20 for recording of evidence in the case.
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