CBI sought part RTI exemption, Govt gave it full Screen Awards: Milkha, Ram-Leela and Madras Cafe dominate DGCA seeks fresh public objections after clearing AirAsia for take-off Delhi: 51-year-old Danish national alleges gangrape, 15 detained for questioning I wonder if I will be able to ever reunite with my husband, my kids. I miss them: Devyani Suresh Kalmadi A Delhi court on Monday framed charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and nine others for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case. Kalmadi, however, has pleaded not guilty. Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur framed charges under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against Kalmadi and other accused, including 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 PC Act. After framing of charges, the court fixed February 20 for recording of evidence in the case. The judge said that the evidence will be recorded on a day-to-day basis barring Monday and Friday. The accused were 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 causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer. Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur had on January 10 posted for Monday the framing of charges in the case. Besides Kalmadi and Bhanot, the other accused in the case are OCs 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. The court had also said that substantial charges of misusing official position have been made out against the six former OC officials, who were public servants.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:50:33 +0000
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