CBI Raids Premises Linked To Ex-J&K Guv Satyapal Malik In Hydroelectric Project Case

The CBI has raided former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik's premises among multiple locations in connection with the Kiru Hydroelectric project case.

The CBI has raided former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik's premises among multiple locations in connection with the Kiru Hydroelectric project case.

Source : PTI

The CBI has raided more than 30 places, including the premises of former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik, as part of its investigation into alleged corruption linked to the awarding of a Kiru Hydroelectric project contract in the UT, news agency ANI said citing sources.

Raids were conducted in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Mumbai and Haryana on the former governor and his close aides. 

Malik, the governor of Jammu and Kashmir from August 23, 2018, to October 30, 2019, had alleged that he was offered a Rs 300 crore bribe for clearing two files, including one connection with the project now being probed.

The case was registered on allegations of malpractices in award of the contract worth approximately Rs 2,200 crore of civil works of Kiru Hydro Electric Power Project (HEP) to a private company in the year 2019," the CBI had said earlier.

The agency has booked the former chairman of the Chenab Valley Power Projects (Private) Limited, Navin Kumar Chaudhary, former officials M S Babu, M K Mittal and Arun Kumar Mishra and Patel Engineering Limited.