Amid allegations of costly purchases, hiring and jacked up contracts in connection with the Commonwealth Games-2010, the revenue intelligence agencies have now begun probing how the Organising Committee’s (OC) own budget for conducting the Games went up from Rs 737 crores in 2005-06 to cross the Rs 2,000 crore-mark, an increase of about 300 per cent.

The contracts awarded to a foreign firm by the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010, led by Suresh Kalmadi, for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games are now under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate.

Investigations by the CBI into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case have revealed that one of the IPS officers of Gujarat — Abhay Chudasama, who was also associated with the state police’ probe into the alleged fake encounter — threatened the family members of the victim to withdraw a petition filed in the Supreme Court for a probe. The agency found out that the officer was doing this at the behest of Amit Shah, Gujarat’s former minister of state (Home).

The CBI, probing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, is likely to question Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in this connection. It is also likely to file a status report with the Supreme Court in a few days, in which it is expected to argue that questioning Mr Modi is crucial to ascertaining certain facts in the case.

The CBI, which is probing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, is also looking into the ballistics report, besides the forensic report, of the weapon used to kill him.

At least 10 businessmen, including marble traders of Udaipur and Jaipur in Rajasthan, are under the scanner of the CBI in connection with the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.

The CBI is likely to arrest another top retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Gujarat, who is considered close to former Gujarat minister of state (home) Amit Shah, on the charges of destruction of evidence in the alleged Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

Still looking for crucial evidence that could take them to the killers more than two years after the death of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj in Noida, the CBI, probing the double murder case, is now concentrating its investigation on the SMSes and the call details of the mobile phones of the two deceased.

After filing the chargesheet against Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah and 14 others in connection with the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, the CBI is now preparing to question two more top leaders of BJP, including a former minister in the Vasundhara Raje government of Rajasthan, in connection with the case. The agency is expected to issue summons to both leaders in this regard.

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