CBI forms SIT to look into CAG report on CWG

New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) The Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) has formed a Special Investigating Team
(SIT) to study the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on
Commonwealth games and to see whether any fresh case could be
registered.
The SIT, headed by a Joint Director, will also
collaborate with other investigating agencies like the Income
Tax and Enforcement Directorate, CBI sources said.
The SIT would be recommending whether any fresh case is
possible apart from 14 regular cases and three Preliminary
Enquiries, which have been registered by the agency on
recommendations of the Central Vigilance Commission.
The CAG has been critical of Sheila Dikshit Government on
import of street lights at higher price and claimed that due
to "active involvement of the Delhi Chief Minister", exchequer
suffered a loss of nearly Rs 31 crore.
It also claimed to have found irregularities in the award
of contract to Emaar MGF for construction of the CWG
residential complex.
The renovation and restoration project of Connaught Place
witnessed a nine-fold increase in cost from the estimated Rs
76 crore to Rs 671 crore.
Streetscaping and beautification works were awarded and
executed in an arbitrary manner with wasteful expenditure of
Rs 101 crore, the report said.
"In the absence of a single point of authority and
accountability, and the lack of a clear governance structure,
a multiplicity of coordination committees was created,
disbanded and reconstituted at different points of time," it
said.
According to the CAG, the Organising Committee's
performance in revenue general was "consistently poor across
all major revenue streams".