Delhi Court Orders Framing of Charges in CWG Scam -Friday Dec 21,2012

A Delhi court on Friday Dec 21,2012 ordered framing of charges for offences of forgery, cheating and conspiracy in a Games-related graft case against -

1)Suresh Kalmadi

 

 

2)Lalit Bhanot 

 

3)V K Verma, Director General (Procurement) 

4)Surjit Lal, Joint Director General (Sports) 

5)A S V Prasad and 

6)Treasurer M Jayachandran

7)P D Arya and A K Madan of Faridabad-based Gem International

8)A K Reddy of Hyderabad-based AKR Constructions

Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh passed the order on framing of charges against Kalmadi, former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and nine others for illegally awarding a contract to Swiss firm, Swiss Timing Omega, causing huge loss to the exchequer.

“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 is ordered to be framed against all the accused,” the court said. 

The court 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 and three companies.

Charges framed against Kalmadi, 9 others - Monday Feb 4,2013

 

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.