New Delhi: Commonwealth Games Organising Committee's former secretary-general Lalit Bhanot and former director-general VK Verma have been sent to 14 days of judicial custody by a Delhi court on Tuesday. The duo will be lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail till March 15.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not ask for further remand for Bhanot and Verma. The investigative agency told Special Judge Talwant Singh that it does not need to question them further and investigations in the Commonwealth Games are on.
Bhanot and Verma have been arrested in connection with irregularities in the Rs 107 crore time-keeping contract awarded to Swiss company Omega for the Games.
The Organising Committee got bidding from two companies, Omega and MS Spain and rates offered by the latter were much lower. But the Organising Committee chose to go with Omega even though the price quoted by the Swiss company was almost double the price from other bidders.
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