The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has questioned former Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik in two corruption circumstances. The company had registered circumstances in April in reference to alleged irregularities in two initiatives in Jammu and Kashmir when Malik was the governor there.
“He was questioned within the case two days again. Since these have been his allegations, extra info was sought from him. A CBI official mentioned he was examined as a witness within the circumstances.
In October 2021, Malik claimed that he was provided a bribe of Rs 300 crore to clear two information, together with one associated to an RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak) chief. Based on this allegation, the CBI registered two circumstances on this case and raided 14 locations in April. The company has registered a case in opposition to officers of Anil Ambani’s Reliance General Insurance Company (RGIC) and Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt Ltd (CVPPPL) in two circumstances.
The searched places included the premises of IAS officer Naveen Choudhary, the then chairman of Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt Ltd (CVPPPL), in addition to MD MS Babu, administrators MK Mittal and Arun Mishra. The accused agency on this case is Patel Engineering Limited. An FIR within the matter was registered in Jammu.
A separate FIR was registered in Srinagar wherein Anil Ambani’s Reliance General Insurance Company and Trinity Reinsurance Brokers Ltd have been named as accused.
“The CBI had registered two separate cases on the request of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, alleging misconduct (I) in awarding the contract of J&K Employees Health Care Insurance Scheme to a private company and releasing Rs. 60 crore (approx.) and (II) award of contract in the year 2017-18. 2200 crore (approximately) of civil works of Kiru Hydro Electric Power Project (HEP) to a private firm in the year 2019,” the CBI had mentioned in a press release.
In March, Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant General Manoj Sinha introduced that the allegations leveled by Malik have been critical and that the administration had determined handy over the investigation of the case to the CBI.
“Since a high-ranking person had said something, we have given our consent to the CBI for investigation in both the cases,” he informed reporters in Jammu. “And after investigation the truth will come out,” he mentioned.
Satya Pal Malik had leveled corruption fees in opposition to a senior RSS functionary final yr. Malik alleged that when he was the governor of Jammu and Kashmir, he had obtained two information, one associated to ‘Ambani’ and the opposite from ‘RSS functionary’. “One of the secretaries informed me that these are obscure offers, however they could get Rs 150 crore every. I informed them that I’ve come to Jammu and Kashmir with 5 kurta-pyjamas and can go along with them. “I alerted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who told me that there should be no compromise on corruption,” Malik mentioned at an occasion in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan.
While Malik didn’t say something about these information, he was referring to the federal government’s cope with Reliance General Insurance. Malik had in October 2018 canceled a cope with Reliance General Insurance Company to offer medical health insurance to authorities workers. The second case pertains to civil works associated to Kiru Hydel Power Project.
Both the circumstances have been formally referred to the CBI on March 23, with the administration writing to the CBI, “Misconduct in awarding the contract of J&Ok Government Employees Health Care Insurance Scheme to Reliance General Insurance Co. There have been allegations. To a non-public agency for civil works of Kiru Hydroelectric Power Project. Reports have been sought from the Finance Department and the Anti-Corruption Bureau in these issues. On consideration of those stories, the competent authority within the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has determined to refer these circumstances to the CBI for investigation,” learn the letter to the CBI.
In Reliance’s case, the CBI FIR states that the allegations talked about by the UT administration “prima facie disclose that unidentified officials of the Finance Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, in conspiracy and collusion with Trinity Reinsurance Brokers Ltd., Reliance”. Has abused his official place. General Insurance Company Ltd. and different unidentified public servants and personal individuals have dedicated the offenses of legal conspiracy and legal misconduct through the interval 2017 and 2018 and wrongly precipitated harm to the State exchequer and thereby Kind of betrayed the federal government. of Jammu and Kashmir.”
An investigation carried out by the UT administration discovered that the federal government had employed Trinity as a dealer to finalize group medical health insurance for presidency workers of Jammu and Kashmir. However, the tender course of initiated by Trinity noticed just one bidder, Reliance.
Notably, an inquiry report submitted to the UT administration on February 8 by the Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau relating to the matter states that no case is made out.
“… the subject verification carried out in this Bureau in respect of Health Care Insurance Scheme of Government servants is closed as no irregularities were found in the matter,” the report mentioned.
The CBI FIR within the Kiru Hydel Project case states that the matter was investigated by the J&Ok ACB and the Electricity Department.
“A perusal of these reports reveals that in award of civil work package of Kiru Hydroelectric Power Project, guidelines regarding e-tendering were not followed and although the 47th Board meeting of CVPPPL through e-tendering A decision was taken to re-tender through reverse tendering. The auction, after cancellation of the ongoing tender process, was not implemented and eventually the tender was awarded to M/s Patel Engineering,” the CBI FIR mentioned. has gone.
The undertaking, which has an estimated price of Rs 4,287 crore, has been accused of substandard work and non-employment of native unemployed youth. The ACB probe into the matter discovered that the tender for the undertaking was canceled within the forty seventh board assembly of CVPPPL, however was revived within the forty eighth board assembly and awarded to Patel Engineering.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
