New Delhi: The former J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik, who triggered a controversy claiming that security lapses led to Pulwama attack, was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to be a witness in an alleged corruption case by Reliance General Insurance.
Malik was directed to be present on April 28 at the agency’s Akbar Road guesthouse in Delhi to give ‘certain clarifications’ regarding the case, according to NDTV .
“They want certain clarifications for which they want my presence. I am going to Rajasthan so I have given them dates from April 27 to 29 when I am available,” news agency PTI quoted Malik as saying.
When he was the governor of Jammu and Kashmir in 2018, Malik reportedly cancelled a contract by Reliance General Insurance owned by industrialist Anil Ambani.
The CBI’s first information report accused Reliance General Insurance and Trinity Reinsurance Brokers of scam in insurance schemes offered to government employees and their families in Jammu and Kashmir in September 2018.
After Malik alleged fraud, the scheme covering 3.5 lakh employees was wound up within a month of rolling out it, leading subsequently to the CBI probe.
‘I myself went through files, and when I came to the conclusion that the contract was awarded wrongly, I cancelled it,’ Malik reportedly said at the time.
Alongside, Malik said that employees themselves finding the scheme ‘ fraudulent’ wanted it be cancelled, before he himself came to the same conclusion.
In September last year, the CBI closed with Malik seeking more inputs in the allegations he had made against the insurance companies, alongside seeking information in alleged corruption in the contract for civil work at Kiru hydroelectrical power project.
Last week, the Modi administration was caught off guard by Malik when he alleged security lapses behind Pulwama attack that had killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force( CRPF) personnel in 2019.
CRPF personnel had to travel by road after the government allegedly denied their request for airlifting in view of security threat, Malik controversially alleged.
