Noose tightens on Kalmadi; arrest likely
HERALD CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, DEC 24
Noose tightened on Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi with a possible arrest any time for alleged corruption and mess in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games here in October as its Organising Committee chairman, with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) swinging into action Friday morning, raiding his office and homes in Delhi, Pune and Mumbai.
Three of his aides who held top posts in the Organising Committee, T S Darbari, Sanjay Mohindroo and M Jeyachandran, are already in jail here with the courts refusing to let them off on bail while the CBI may register a new FIR (First Information Report) to take Kalmadi into custody on the basis of evidences recorded and the seizures made in the course of investigations, including those at his places raided on Friday.
Though the CBI has a heavy posse of staff in its Mumbai office, it opted to fly the investigating officers to Mumbai and Pune from Delhi as they were well-versed with the CWG cases under probe, a CBI official said. He said the documents seized in searches in Delhi and Pune were sealed after obtaining signatures of Kalmadi and others from his side as they would be scrutinised and tallied with other papers recovered in other raids.
The sleuths who landed at Kalmadi’s bungalow are reported to have questioned him on some of the documents related to the London Baton Rally missing from the Organising Committee’s office. Kalmadi claimed the Organising Committee has given all documents and some that the CBI felt missing may be with other agencies.
Noose tightens on Kalmadi; arrest likely
NEW DELHI, DEC 24 Noose tightened on Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi with a possible arrest any time for alleged corruption and mess in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games here in October as its Organising Committee chairman, with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) swinging into action Friday morning, raiding his office and homes in Delhi, Pune and Mumbai.
