A Delhi court today fixed February 4th for framing charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi in corruption cases.He has been alleged to have cheated,conspired and caused a loss of over 90 crore rupees to the public exchequer in a Games-related graft case.
Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur deferred the framing of charges, saying she needs more time to go through the entire records of the case before passing any order.The special judge has taken charge of this court on January 2 after the earlier judge, who had ordered framing of charges, was transferred. The case was fixed for today for formally framing of charges against all the accused.
The court had on December 21st passed the order on framing of charges under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against Kalmadi and nine others, including former Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot.
Besides Kalmadi and Bhanot, 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. They are no more associated with the sporting body.