CBI reaches Satya Pal Malik’s residence to doc assertion in J&Okay insurance coverage protection graft situations

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: A gaggle comprising officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation reached the residence of Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satyapal Malik, at R Okay Puram in New Delhi publish noon, to doc his depose on the corporate’s queries in reference to the two graft situations mounting to Rs 300 crore in a bunch medical insurance coverage protection scheme of J&Okay administration, registered in April 2022, based totally on bribery allegations levelled by him.

The CBI contacted Malik ultimate week in search of his time to doc his statements for added readability throughout the matter in view of questions and clarification sought from him throughout the case which is at present beneath investigation.

Malik had equipped to make himself on the market tentatively each on April 27 or 28 relying upon his availability in view of his busy personal schedule.

This is the second time CBI is recording Malik’s assertion in reference to the two bribery situations registered in J&Okay, based totally on his (Malik’s) criticism that he was approached by private occasions, when she was the J&Okay Governor, to get two info cleared for which he was equipped an alleged bribe of Rs 300 crore.

He appeared sooner than the CBI to depose for the first time throughout the matter immediately after his tenure as J&Okay Governor ended on October 4.

The incident occurred between August 23, 2018, and October 30, 2019, when Malik was the governor of J&Okay. In his criticism, Malik had talked about that he was approached by two private entities — one associated to a extensively identified firm house and the alternative with well-placed political connections to get two info cleared.

The info had been pertaining to awarding of a contract for a bunch medical insurance coverage protection scheme for presidency workers and civil work value Rs 2,200 crore related to the Kiru hydroelectric vitality problem throughout the erstwhile state of J&Okay, now a union territory.

Following allegations of irregularities throughout the award of contract for the Jammu and Kashmir Employees Health Care Insurance Scheme which involved releasing Rs 60 crore in 2017-18, Malik on the potential of J&Okay Governor cancelled the contract in October 2018. The allegation primarily pertained to the tactic adopted and costs fixed beneath the scheme.

Malik, who was the J&Okay Governor from August 2018 to October 2019, had made the disclosure at a gathering all through an event in Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan in October 2021 following which the CBI in April 2022 registered the two FIRs in reference to bribery allegations levelled by him.

The Rajasthan incident was reported throughout the media the place Malik was quoted alleging that two info received right here to him for clearance, one belonging to Ambani and one different to an RSS-affiliated man who was a minister throughout the earlier Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP coalition authorities and claimed to be very close to the Prime Minister.

He knowledgeable the gathering that secretaries of the two associated departments knowledgeable me that he would get “Rs 150 crore each for clearing the files to which he responded by saying “I have come with five kurta-pyjamas and will leave with that only.” He later educated the gathering that he cancelled every presents after the secretaries alerted him that there was a rip-off.

V Malik appeared sooner than the CBI after his 5 years tenure as Governor ended on October 4. He was appointed as Governor of Bihar in 2017 after which he was despatched to Jammu and Kashmir in 2018 the place he oversaw the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019.  Malik, who had criticised the Centre all through farmers’ agitation, was moved to Meghalaya the place his five-year tenure ended this month.

NEW DELHI: A gaggle comprising officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation reached the residence of Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satyapal Malik, at R Okay Puram in New Delhi publish noon, to doc his depose on the corporate’s queries in reference to the two graft situations mounting to Rs 300 crore in a bunch medical insurance coverage protection scheme of J&Okay administration, registered in April 2022, based totally on bribery allegations levelled by him.

The CBI contacted Malik ultimate week in search of his time to doc his statements for added readability throughout the matter in view of questions and clarification sought from him throughout the case which is at present beneath investigation.

Malik had equipped to make himself on the market tentatively each on April 27 or 28 relying upon his availability in view of his busy personal schedule.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

This is the second time CBI is recording Malik’s assertion in reference to the two bribery situations registered in J&Okay, based totally on his (Malik’s) criticism that he was approached by private occasions, when she was the J&Okay Governor, to get two info cleared for which he was equipped an alleged bribe of Rs 300 crore.

He appeared sooner than the CBI to depose for the first time throughout the matter immediately after his tenure as J&Okay Governor ended on October 4.

The incident occurred between August 23, 2018, and October 30, 2019, when Malik was the governor of J&Okay. In his criticism, Malik had talked about that he was approached by two private entities — one associated to a extensively identified firm house and the alternative with well-placed political connections to get two info cleared.

The info had been pertaining to awarding of a contract for a bunch medical insurance coverage protection scheme for presidency workers and civil work value Rs 2,200 crore related to the Kiru hydroelectric vitality problem throughout the erstwhile state of J&Okay, now a union territory.

Following allegations of irregularities throughout the award of contract for the Jammu and Kashmir Employees Health Care Insurance Scheme which involved releasing Rs 60 crore in 2017-18, Malik on the potential of J&Okay Governor cancelled the contract in October 2018. The allegation primarily pertained to the tactic adopted and costs fixed beneath the scheme.

Malik, who was the J&Okay Governor from August 2018 to October 2019, had made the disclosure at a gathering all through an event in Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan in October 2021 following which the CBI in April 2022 registered the two FIRs in reference to bribery allegations levelled by him.

The Rajasthan incident was reported throughout the media the place Malik was quoted alleging that two info received right here to him for clearance, one belonging to Ambani and one different to an RSS-affiliated man who was a minister throughout the earlier Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP coalition authorities and claimed to be very close to the Prime Minister.

He knowledgeable the gathering that secretaries of the two associated departments knowledgeable me that he would get “Rs 150 crore each for clearing the files to which he responded by saying “I have come with five kurta-pyjamas and will leave with that only.” He later educated the gathering that he cancelled every presents after the secretaries alerted him that there was a rip-off.

V Malik appeared sooner than the CBI after his 5 years tenure as Governor ended on October 4. He was appointed as Governor of Bihar in 2017 after which he was despatched to Jammu and Kashmir in 2018 the place he oversaw the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019.  Malik, who had criticised the Centre all through farmers’ agitation, was moved to Meghalaya the place his five-year tenure ended this month.