Kalmadi outside the CBI headquarters. Picture by Ramakant Kushwaha

New Delhi, Jan. 5: Suresh Kalmadi was today questioned for nearly nine hours by the CBI, the first such interrogation of the disgraced Commonwealth Games organising committee president.

The officers interrogated him regarding two cases — the deals with two firms, AM Cars and AM Films, for the Queen’s Baton Relay in London in October.

There is also a case of funds misappropriation in the procurement of timing equipment for the Games against him.

Sources said the CBI team asked Kalmadi how the contracts could have been awarded without any agreement. The sleuths also asked him about an allegedly forged document that Kalmadi had shown before television cameras.

The agency may expand investigation and file cases against some officials who were with Kalmadi earlier but “slipped out” in the nick of time, sources told The Telegraph. The associates may have been placed in agencies such as the Sports Authority of India.

Games organising committee joint director T.S. Darbari, its deputy director-general Sanjay Mohindroo and treasurer M. Jeyachandran are behind bars.

Kalmadi entered the CBI building at 10.10am and left around 7pm. He did not speak to waiting journalists.

Sources said that the CBI wanted to question him tomorrow also but Kalmadi had apparently told the probe agency he needed a couple of days to produce documents in his defence.

The CBI also grilled Kalmadi’s three secretaries — Manoj Bhori, P.K. Srivastava and A.K. Sinha today.