To fulfil Kalmadi last moment wish, Rs 71 lakh paid for Shilpa Shetty
A Delhi court dealing with a CWG related corruption case on Monday said two of the accused had paid Rs 71.73 lakh for cinestar Shilpa Shetty's performance in the closing ceremony of 2008 CWG Youth Games at Pune “merely to fulfil the last moment wish” of Suresh Kalmadi.
The court, which put sacked CWG Organising Committee chief Kalmadi and others on trial for the offences under various sections of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act, observed that promoters of Faridabad-based Gem International, P D Arya and A K Madan, paid Rs 71.73 lakh to M/s Whiz Craft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd for Shetty's performance.
According to court sources, Arya and Madan, who were representing Swiss Timing, which was “illegally” awarded the contract to install Timing, Scoring and Results (TSR) system for the 2010 CWG at inflated rates, had paid the money which was “arranged beyond the scope of work”.
Sources said the court, in its order, has noted that both the accused were associated with the CWG Youth Games 2008 and had paid Rs 71,73,950 at Kalmadi's instance through cheque on October 30, 2008 to Whiz Craft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd for Shetty's performance.
Besides Kalmadi, Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur also framed charges against OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, Arya, Madan and others for criminal conspiracy, forgery, cheating and other offences entailing life imprisonment as maximum punishment.
The accused were chargesheeted by the CBI for “illegally” awarding a contract to install TSR system for the 2010 Games to Swiss Timing at inflated
Congress response to corruption
Chandrakant Marathe | 05-Feb-2013Reply | Forward I don't find any comment on Kalmadi's corruption from Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and so called clean Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?? In fact no congressman worth his or her salt ever targeted Kalmadi? Just because congressman is free to do corruption???
Corrupt.
Utham | 05-Feb-2013Reply | Forward Dear Chandrakanth, Too late to clean up our nation. The country has been raped by the Italian Family & all their congress A/holes. No point in rasing any issues against them, if you do so, they will have the CBI chasing you with somwe cooked up cases.
