Kalmadi aide arrested in CWG overlays scam

Pune, Feb 11 (PTI) The Indian premier investigative
agency, CBI on Friday arrested former Commonwealth Games
Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi's close aide
Shekhar Deorukhkar in the multi-crore rupee overlays scam
in connection with last year's mega sporting event held in
India.
Deorukhkar is the fifth person to be arrested in the scam
in which nearly Rs 600 crore worth contracts relating to the
Games' overlays project are under the scanner of various
agencies.
The arrest of the Congress MP's personal assistant here
came after the investigating agency had registered a fresh
case under various legal provisions in award of contracts for
overlays at different venues for the Games at exorbitant
rates, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spokesperson
said in New Delhi.
Deorukhkar was picked up from his residence in Kothrud
area by the CBI team that landed here from Delhi and was
booked under IPC 420 and 120(b)--cheating and conspiracy
charges. He has been Kalmadi's PA for over 15 years.
He was later produced before district judge S Sardesai
who granted CBI transit remand of the accused.
The CBI was directed to produce the accused in a Delhi
court by February 14, according to Pratap Pardeshi, counsel
who appeared for Deorukhkar.
It had earlier arrested three senior CWG officials T S
Darbari, Sanjay Mohindroo and M Jayachandran. All the three
were subsequently granted bail. Beenu Nanu, the head of two
event management companies, was the fourth person to be picked
up.
Overlays works included supply of tents, marquees,
pre-fabricated units, portable toilets, containers, security
fences, furniture, public display LED boards, floor finishes,
material handling equipment, gensets, cabling, UPS,
air-conditioners, lighting, civil construction, athletic
exercise equipment and grandstands.
The agency had conducted a number of searches in certain
premises across the country early in January in connection
with the scam in the Games, including those of an officer
under Union Sports Ministry.
The overlays contracts are also under the scanner of
the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate.
CBI had earlier registered three FIRs for alleged
corruption in the projects and events in the run up to the
sporting extravaganza.
Two of these cases were in connection with alleged
irregularities in the Queen's Baton Relay. PTI SKL
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