CWG scam: CBI arrests pvt firm head

New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) India's premier investigation
agency CBI has arrested the head of a private firm, which had
bagged over Rs 150 crore contract from Commonwealth Games
Organising Committee for overlays works.

Binu Nanu, Director GL Events - Meroform, was arrested by
the probe agency and remanded in four days police custody,
official sources said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had on January
12 searched office and residence premises of Nanu and many
others after it registered a case in connection with the over
Rs 600 crore alleged overlays scam.
Nanu's wife Roopana is also one of his associate in the
business.
The First Information Report (FIR), the fourth in
connection with the CWG games, was registered against OC
Director General V K Verma.
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 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 the alleged
irregularities in the Queen's baton relay. PTI SAP
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