Police stopped from seizing property of CWG scam accused

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday stopped Faridabad Police from attaching the properties of two Haryana businessmen, arrested for their alleged role in an illegal award of a Commonwealth Games contract to a Swiss firm.

Special CBI judge Talwant Singh stopped police from confiscating properties of businessmen P D Arya and A K Madan, the promoters of Faridabad-based Gem International, while also extending their judicial custody till September 15, along with those of seven other accused, including sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi.

Others whose judicial custody were extended included CWG OC's Director General V K Verma, Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, Director General (Procurement) Surjit Lal, Joint Director General (sports) A S V Prasad, Treasurer M Jayachandran and Hyderabad businessmen A K Reddy.

Restraining police to stop its process of attaching properties of Madan and Arya, the court directed the in-charge of Faridabad Sector 12 police station to return the warrants, issued for attachment of the properties.

For evading their arrest, the court had declared Madan and Arya proclaimed offenders and had subsequently ordered the attachment of their properties, but after they surrendered before the court and pleaded to stop the seizure process, the court acceded to their requests.

The warrants to attach the duo's properties were issued by the court on August 16 but on the same day the duo had surrendered before the court.