By IANS,
New Delhi : Barricades were put in place and over 100 security personnel took up position at the Patiala House court hours before Suresh Kalmadi, former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief, was brought to the complex here Tuesday and yet a slipper was hurled at him.
The high security did not prevent Kalmadi, sporting a white t-shirt and khaki trousers, from getting the unusual welcome. A slipper was hurled at him by a man who broke through the security around him.
The attacker was overpowered by police and taken to the nearby Tilak Marg police station.
Kalmadi was brought to the court by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for an extension of his custody after his arrest Monday for “conspiracy to favour a private firm in Switzerland” in acquiring a timing and results system for the Oct 3-14, 2010 Games.
However, unflurried by the slipper hit, Kalmadi entered the court room smilingly. For over an hour of the court proceedings, the MP from Pune seemed in a contemplative mood and occasionally nodded his head whenever his lawyers argued in his favour.
The court room was jam-packed by media persons, including two foreign journalists, and lawyers even before the arrival of the judge Talwant Singh and Kalmadi.
The judge had to repeatedly warn those in the courtroom to make space for beginning the proceedings. “I ask all of you to go back and make same space,” Singh said.
“Over hundred security personnel from Delhi Police and CRPF were deployed considering the sensitivity of the matter,” said a police officer stationed at the court complex.