New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to decide on the plea of one of the accused in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring and Results (TSR) scam on Monday. Switzerland-based firm, the Swiss Timing Omega, is seeking a stay on possible coercive measures against it, ordered by a lower court.
Sacked CWG Olympic Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi had allegedly granted the contract to Swiss Timing, causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.
The HC had earlier refused to stay a possible coercive process against the Swiss firm for not appearing before a court.
The selection process for awarding the TSR contract took around three years. Swiss Timing's first presentation was made one year after the publication of expression of interest and the expression of interest was issued by the then Commonwealth Games Organising Committee secretary general Lalit Bhanot without the knowledge of Games Finance Committee
Swiss Timing itself recorded Rs 18 crore as escalation cost due to delays. Former Organising Committee director general VK Verma changed the eligibility criteria of the TSR deal without bringing it to the notice of Organising Committee Executive Board.
Kalmadi ensured that the committee formed to approve the TSR deal consisted of those who favoured Swiss Timing. Two officials, VK Gautam and Sujit Panigrahi, were forced to resign from their positions in the Organising Committee as they opposed the choice of Swiss Timing.
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