Kumar, who is also a deputy director general of the Organising Committee, was handpicked from the private sector to work for the organising committee by Chairman Suresh Kalmadi.

He was forced to give up his role by the Cabinet Secretary’s office.

Kumar was charged with obstructing the Press Information Bureau’s work of issuing accreditation passes and press kits to journalists, which resulted in heavy delays.

There were also allegations of irregularities in the accreditation process.

Kumar was removed from press operations and is now in charge of environment.

He has been replaced as head of press operations by Manjushree Roy who has been transferred around the Organising Committee five times in the past year.

Kumar is said to have hit out at officers who questioned him about accreditations as "liars" and suggested he was being targeted by foreign consultants due to a race bias.

He accused others of angling for jobs after the Games were over.

Seven core members of the team quit their posts in protest at Kumar’s departure, leaving operations at the Main Press Centre well behind schedule.

Some journalists’ accreditations have been delayed and media kits will not be distributed until Friday (October 1).

There also remain a series of problems for journalists obtaining wireless internet access at the main press centre after the facility broke down completely last week.

Kumar is not the only man in Delhi under fire as television channel Times Now claims the Organising Committee is spending a huge sums of Indian tax-payers’ money on a lavish lifestyle for Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Mike Hooper.

The reports state that Hooper’s accommodation for the last 26 months stands at Rs 450,000 (£6,300/$9,960) while a monthly salary of more than Rs 37,000 (£518/$819) is being paid by the organising committee to six domestic staff dedicated only to the New Zealander.

Hooper (pictured) is also said to be driven round in a paid-for luxury car while VK Malhotra, the vice-president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), warned his organisation was collecting information on the amount of money spent on Hooper.

He said: "I don’t have complete information on this.

"We are collecting the information as to how much we are spending on these people and whether they were present in the earlier Commonwealth Games or not.

"After we collect the information then we can react properly."

Hooper has been aggressively attacked in the media during the last week for his disparaging remarks against the Indian Government which Malhotra stated he should not have made.

Malhotra said: "He is working for a long time, naturally as a part of the Organising Committee, so he shouldn’t have reacted in such a way."

Hooper had said that the Government agencies did not act in time and delayed the proceedings.

He had claimed: "We’re at the hands and the mercy of, effectively, the Government of India, the Delhi Government, the agencies responsible for delivery of the venues.

"They consistently failed to meet deadlines."

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