CWG scam: HC notice to CBI on bail plea of jailed accused

Justice Ajit Bharihoke asked the probe agency to respond to the bail application of the accused on February 18, the next date of hearing. In the bail plea, Nanu, the director of event management company GL Events-Meroform, said that he has been remanded in judicial custody till February four by the lower court on the conclusion of his four-day custodial interrogation by the CBI.

Nanu is suffering from some cardiac ailment and has been admitted to the DDU hospital, the counsel for the accused said. Justice Bharihoke directed the Superintendent of Tihar Jail that the accused, if required, be taken to the AIIMS for better treatment.

Nanu was arrested on January 18 and had been interrogated by the CBI in its custody for four days before being remanded in judicial custody. The CBI had on January 12 searched the office and residence of Nanu and many others after it registered a case in connection with the alleged overlays scam.

Nanu's wife Roopana is also one of his associates in the business, the agency has said. The FIR, the fourth in connection with the CWG, was registered against OC Director General V K Verma.

The CBI had alleged that Verma and others entered into a "criminal conspiracy" with managing directors and directors of private companies in the award of contracts for overlays for different venues of CWG-2010 at "exorbitant rates".

The overlays contracts are also under the scanner of the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate. Overlays works included supply of tents, marquees, prefabricated units, portable toilets, containers, security fences, furniture, public display LED boards, floor finishes, material handling equipment, gensets, cabling, UPS, lighting, air-conditioners, civil construction, athletic exercise equipment and grandstands, the agency said.

The CBI had earlier registered three FIRs for alleged corruption in projects and events in the run-up to the sporting extravaganza. Two of these cases were in connection with alleged irregularities in the Queen's Baton Relay.