CBI charge sheet Kalmadi in Games equipment scam

New Delhi: The noose around sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi seemed to be tightening as the CBI today filed its first charge sheet in a Delhi court, referring him as a “main accused” in the Timing-Scoring-Result equipment scam. The investigating agency, in its over 50-page charge sheet, said Kalmadi was the ultimate authority regarding the award of contracts. [caption id=“attachment_13149” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Suresh Kalmadi, former chief organiser of the Commonwealth Games, has been chargesheeted by the CBI due to financial irregularities in the Delhi CWG. Parivartan Sharma/Reuters”]  [/caption] “Kalmadi is the main accused as he was the person with all supreme powers. He had the supreme over riding powers in the Organising Committee of the CWG, 2010,” the charge sheet said. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh took the charge sheet into record and fixed it for taking up the issue of congisance on it on 23 May. Besides Kalmadi, the agency named two companies and eight people including OC former Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and former Director General V K Verma as accused and sought their prosecution under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, dealing with criminal conspiracy, forging documents and using fake documents as genuine. The charge sheet mentioned that the accused allegedly awarded the lucrative contract to the Swiss firm to install a Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) system for the Commonwealth Games at an exorbitant cost, causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.