CWG scam: Suresh Kalmadi moves bail application

Earlier,Special Judge Dharmesh Sharma had sent Kalmadi,OC Joint Director General (Sport) A S V Prasad and OC Deputy Director General (Procurement) Surjit Lal to judicial custody till May 18 after CBI said some important witnesses are yet to be examined.

Kalmadi,Prasad and Lal were arrested by CBI on April 25 for awarding allegedly illegal contract to a Swiss firm for Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) system for the mega sporting event held in October last year causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the state exchequer.

Kalmadi,the Congress MP from Pune who has been suspended from the party,and the two other officials have been booked under sections 120 B (conspiracy),420 (cheating),467(forgery of valuable security),468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC besides other relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Kalmadi’s arrest had come weeks after his close aide and OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and Director General V K Verma were taken into custody in the same case.