The CBI has conveyed to the government that the continuance of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi and Secretary Lalit Bhanot in their posts was proving to be an obstruction to its ongoing probe into allegations of corruption during the Games here.
The CBI has told Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar that Mr. Kalmadi and Mr. Bhanot should be moved out at the earliest for the smooth progress of the investigations, official sources said.
The CBI move came after its Director, A.P. Singh, was informed by the investigating officers that OC officials were not forthcoming in sharing information with them because their bosses were still at the helm of affairs.
The CBI has filed three FIRs in connection with alleged irregularities in the Games and searched the residences of Mr. Bhanot and OC Director-General V.K. Verma on November 30. Both were named in a case relating to the purchase and contracting of timing equipment used for the Games.
Earlier, the CBI had filed two FIRs for the contracting of AM Films and cars/vans for the Baton Relay ceremonies by the OC in London. It arrested Joint Director-General T.S. Darbari and Deputy Director-General Sanjay Mohindroo for their alleged complicity in these deals.
