Suresh Kalmadi

Later that year, the UK-based organizers Formula One Administration Limited signed a inr 16000000000 contract in this regard with India-based JPSK Sports Private Limited.

Records obtained by The Indian Express showed that Pune-based Sulba Realty Private Limited was a 13% shareholder in JPSK, along with Jaypee Group (74%).

Kalmadi's son Sumeer was a director in Sulba Realty at the time, which would have implied a conflict of interest.

While the JP in JPSK stood for Jaypee Group, it was alleged that the SK was a reference to Suresh/Sumeer Kalmadi.

Records from the Registrar of Companies, India showed that a year after the company was floated, Kalmadi's daughter, Payal Aditya Bhartia, and his son-in-law, Aditya Bhartia, joined JPSK as independent directors.

Suresh Kalmadi (born 1 May 1944) is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator.

He is a former member of the Indian National Congress.

Kalmadi joined the National Defence Academy in 1960 and was commissioned as a pilot in the Indian Air Force, serving between 1964 and 1972.

He then became an instructor with the Air Force Training Team of the NDA from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from the IAF as a squadron leader.

He is married to Meera Kalmadi.

The couple have two daughters and one son.

In 1977, Kalmadi became the president of the Indian Youth Congress, Pune, and the next year took over President-ship of the Youth Congress, Maharashtra, a post he held from 1978 to 1980.

In 1980, as the president of the Maharashtra Athletics Association, Kalmadi undertook the selection trials for the Marathon team to represent the country at the Moscow Olympics.

This soon led to the establishment of the Pune International Marathon.

Kalmadi served as president of the Indian Youth Congress (Socialist) 1981–1986.

He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for three terms from 1982 to 1996, and again in 1998.

Kalmadi took over as the Chairman of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and in 1989 started the Pune Festival.

During the tenure of P. V. Narasimha Rao as the Prime Minister of India, Suresh Kalmadi served as the Minister of State for Railways from 1995 to 1996.

That year he presented the Railway Budget.

He was also elected to the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, and to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004.

Kalmadi served as the president of the Indian Olympic Association from 1996 to 2012.

He also served as the president of Asian Athletics Association from 2000 to 2013 and was named its Life President in 2015.

Kalmadi, as the Indian Olympic Association, signed an agreement to bring the Formula One Grand Prix to India in 2007.

He is alleged to have been involved in corrupt practices in relation to the 2010 Commonwealth Games during his tenure as president of Indian Olympic Association and chairman of Commonwealth Games 2010.

Kalmadi's conduct around the 2010 Commonwealth Games came under scrutiny, with the Central Vigilance Commission (India's anti-corruption organisation) asking the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe certain aspects of the games' organisation.

For this, the opposition demanded Kalmadi's resignation.

The charge sheet said, "Kalmadi is the main accused as he was the person with all supreme powers. He had the supreme over-riding powers in the Organising Committee of the CWG, 2010."

In addition to Kalmadi, the CBI named two companies and eight persons including OC former Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and former Director General VK Verma as accused.

Kalmadi's membership of the Indian National Congress Party was suspended after being arrested and charged with corruption.

On 25 April 2011, CBI arrested former CWG Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi in the Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) case.

He was arrested under Sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code.

On 20 May 2011, CBI filed the first chargesheet in a special CBI court against Kalmadi.

The CBI alleged that he was the main accused in awarding TSR system contract to a Swiss firm.

He was a member of parliament from Pune until May 2014.

He was charged with conspiracy, forgery, misconduct and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and later arrested for the same in April 2014, but as has yet not faced trial.

In December 2016, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) named Suresh Kalmadi as its lifetime patron.

However, he refused to accept the post until he was able to clear his name.

Kalmadi was born to Mangalore-based Dr. K. Shamrao Kalmadi and Shanta Rao Kalmadi.

He speaks Konkani, Kannada, Marathi, English, Hindi and Tulu language.

He was educated at St. Vincent's High School and Fergusson College, Pune.