New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Former chief of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi started his day Tuesday with the newspapers in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) lockup where he spent the night.

Kalmadi, who was arrested Monday for alleged financial irregularities in the granting of contracts for the October 2010 sporting event, stayed at the CBI lockup at the CGO complex in Lodhi Road in central Delhi. He will be produced in a court Tuesday.

"He was kept in an air conditioned lockup room at CBI headquarters which has all the basic facilities. He had a comfortable sleep Monday night and just asked for some medicines which were provided," a CBI official told IANS.

According to the official, Kalmadi did not ask for anything but a newspaper. "He started the day reading the newspaper," the official said.

Kalmadi, an MP from Pune, was arrested after nearly daylong questioning by the CBI at its headquarters here for alleged criminal conspiracy and overspending of public money in holding the Oct 3-14 Games last year.

Kalmadi was arrested for "conspiracy to favour a private firm in Switzerland"