{
 "no": 67,
 "id": "case-67",
 "sk": 20101003,
 "year": 2010,
 "date": "Games Oct 2010; ED closure accepted 2025",
 "cat": "Public money",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Commonwealth Games 2010. Nineteen FIRs, and an empty dock at the end",
 "stamp": "Fifteen years. Case closed. Nobody answerable.",
 "human": {
  "v": "A capital city rebuilt in a hurry, with the bill and the contracts both disputed",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A CAG report describing corruption, mismanagement and favouritism across the preparations",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "The CAG's report on the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games set out systematic overpricing, favouritism in contracts and mismanagement across the preparations. Nineteen FIRs followed. Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi was arrested and spent months in custody.",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "sk": 20101003,
   "on": "Oct 2010",
   "kind": "incident",
   "what": "The Commonwealth Games are held in Delhi."
  },
  {
   "sk": 20110401,
   "on": "2011",
   "kind": "action",
   "what": "The CAG reports systematic overpricing, favouritism in contracts and mismanagement across the preparations. Nineteen FIRs follow, and the Organising Committee chairman is arrested and spends months in custody."
  },
  {
   "sk": 20130101,
   "on": "2011 onward",
   "kind": "silence",
   "what": "The prosecutions go nowhere. Officials are acquitted in several of the cases."
  },
  {
   "sk": 20250101,
   "on": "2025",
   "kind": "silence",
   "what": "A Delhi court accepts the Enforcement Directorate's closure report on the money-laundering investigation, ending the matter without a finding. Fifteen years, nineteen FIRs, and no political accountability."
  }
 ],
 "dodge": "The prosecutions went nowhere. Officials were acquitted in several cases; a Delhi court accepted the Enforcement Directorate's closure report on the money-laundering investigation, ending the matter without a finding. Fifteen years, nineteen FIRs, and no political or official accountability at the end of it.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Suresh Kalmadi",
   "r": "Organising Committee chairman, Congress MP; arrested, never convicted"
  },
  {
   "n": "Union Sports Ministry",
   "r": "Oversight of the Games; no official held responsible"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "Kalmadi denied wrongdoing throughout and was never convicted; the closure of the investigation is cited by his defenders as vindication.",
 "alleg": "The CAG's findings on process are on the record. <em>Individual criminal liability was alleged and never established</em>, and the investigating agency itself ultimately sought closure.",
 "alt": "Contracts published as they were awarded, and an investigation that either convicted someone or said plainly and early that there was nothing to convict on.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Tribune: court accepts ED closure report on CWG",
   "url": "https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/no-case-against-kalmadi-others-court-accepts-ed-closure-report-on-2010-cwg-scam/",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "ThePrint: 19 FIRs, 15 years, zero accountability",
   "url": "https://theprint.in/india/19-firs-15-yrs-zero-accountability-unresolved-saga-of-cwg-scam-that-changed-delhi-its-politics/2479015/",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-67/"
}