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CBI
arrests two Commonwealth Games OC officials
Monday November 15, 2010 07:17:38 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Two key aides of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC)
chief Suresh Kalmadi - T.S. Darbari and Sanjay Mohindroo - were
arrested Monday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for
their alleged involvement in the Queen's Baton Relay scam, CBI DIG
Anurag said.
The CBI raided the residential premises and the office of the two
officials before arresting them. Darbari and Mohindroo had been
suspended from their CGOC posts earlier this year after the scam
surfaced.
"A case was registered against the then joint DG revenue,
marketing and chairman's secretariat Darbari, then deputy
marketing DG Mohindroo, a London based transport firm, its
director and others," Anurag told reporters here.
He said that it is alleged that the accused officials of the CGOC,
in conspiracy with a London based transport firm - AM Car and Van
and The Chauffer Company - and its director, awarded work to the
firm at exorbitant rates without following the standard tendering
process.
"The work was awarded on the first premise that the firm was on
the panel of the Indian high Commission in London," Anurag said.
He said that two e-mails were allegedly forged by the two CGOC
officials to justify the selection of the firm.
"The second case was registered against Darbari, Mohindroo and a
London-based private firm dealing in audio visual equipment, its
director and others. It is alleged that the accused officials in
conspiracy with the firm awarded the work of installation of video
screens at the venue of Queen's Baton Relay at exorbitant rates,"
Anurag added.
The second company is AM Films, a sister concern of the transport
firm.
Darbari and Mohindroo will be produced in the Patiala House Court
Tuesday, Anurag added.
They have been arrested under sections 468 (forgery of court
records and public documents), 471 (Using forged documents as
genuine), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the
Indian Penal Code. They have also been charged under the
Prevention of Corruption Act.
The organising committee is understood to have paid AM Films, an
Indian-owned firm, over 450,000 pounds for services during the
Queen's Baton Relay function in London in October 2009 allegedly
without following proper tendering procedures and paper work.
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