New Delhi, April 23: A Delhi court today granted bail to a Commonwealth Games Organising Committee official and a private firm director in the overlays scam after the CBI failed to file chargesheets against them within the stipulated 60 days.

The CBI’s inability to file a single chargesheet in the Games scam case but its rapid action on the Supreme Court-monitored 2G spectrum scam has given rise to the impression that the premier investigation agency acts only under court pressure.

Today, special judge Sanjeev Jain granted bail to Games additional director general K.U.K. Reddy and Praveen Bakshi, the director of the ESJAV:D Art: Indo-Consortium firm, PTI reports. They were told to furnish one personal and two surety bonds of Rs 50,000 each.

Reddy and Bakshi were arrested on February 22.

During the hearing, the CBI said that its investigation was going on and it needed more time to file the chargesheet against the two.

The CBI had said that Reddy and Bakshi gave and accepted bribes and Reddy misused his official position. The CBI had also said Bakshi had paid a huge bribe to Games officials in return for getting contracts with exorbitant rates.

Nearly Rs 600 crore worth of contracts on overlays, such as supply of tents, marquees, prefabricated units, portable toilets, containers, security fences, furniture and public display LED boards, are under the CBI scanner.

In contrast to the slow Games case progress, “the 2G probe has stolen a march… only because of the Supreme Court intervention. Had it not been so, the 2G case would have gone the CWG way”, a government source said.

A senior CBI officer said: “The chargesheet in the 2G case was filed on time as we had to meet the deadline fixed by the court.”

Another officer said: “We have been asked to go slow (on the CWG case) and that’s why the probe has not moved further.”

The failure to file the CWG chargesheet within 60 days of arresting former Games organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi’s three aides — T.S. Darbari, Sanjay Mohindroo and M. Jayachandaran — helped them get bail.

The agency took over the probe into the two biggest scams almost at the same time last year.

“We could have filed the (CWG) chargesheet by now in the case if it was also monitored by the court,” another officer said.

A day after the closing ceremony of the Games on October 14 last year, the Prime Minister’s Office ordered high-level probe into the event.