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Hindustan Times
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Former J&K governor Satyapal Malik gives health update on social media: ‘Serious condition'
Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik on Saturday took to social media to state that he was unwell and provided people with a contact number to get in touch with him. In a post on X in Hindi, he said, ' Condition very serious. Contact number - 96105 44972' A day before, the veteran politician had taken to X to say that he had been admitted to the hospital for the last month and was suffering from kidney problems. Also Read: Valley politicians slams ex-governor Satya Pal Malik He said, 'Hello, friends. I have been admitted to the hospital for the last month and am suffering from kidney problems. I was fine since the day before yesterday morning but today again I had to be shifted to the ICU. My condition is becoming very serious.' Malik also stated in his post that he wished to address the 'false' chargesheet against him and claimed that the BJP-led government was trying to defame him. Also Read: Kiru hydropower corruption case: CBI files chargesheet against ex-J&K guv Satyapal Malik, 7 others He said, 'Whether I live or not, I want to tell the truth to my countrymen. When I was on the post of Governor, I was offered bribes of Rs. 150-150 crores, but I continued to work honestly like my political guru, farmer messiah late Chaudhary Charan Singh ji and he could never shake my integrity.' He added, 'The government is trying to find an excuse to trap me in a false chargesheet by threatening me with the CBI. I myself had cancelled the tender in which they want to trap me. I myself had told the Prime Minister that there was corruption in this case and after telling him, I myself cancelled the tender. After my transfer, this tender was done with someone else's signature." The former governor stated that after a political career spanning 50 years, he still lived in a one-room house and was in debt. 'If I had money today, I would have got treatment in a private hospital,' he said.
Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Valley politicians slams ex-governor Satya Pal Malik
After former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik was chargesheeted in a corruption case related to hydropower project in Kishtwar, Jammu, Valley political leaders said he had branded people in Kashmir 'corrupt' during his tenure. Peoples Conference (PC) chairperson Sajjad Lone said Malik ran slanderous campaign against Kashmiris. 'While I feel bad for ex governor Satyap Malik, given that he is ill, it true that he heralded the most vicious and slanderous campaign against the Kashmiris, branding every Kashmiri as a corrupt soul,' he said. Lone said that there was not a single television channel where Malik did not voice his negative opinion about Kashmiris, about carpets, about three-storey Kashmiri residences. 'He harboured a contemptuous hatred for Kashmiris and lied through his teeth. That he has now been booked under a corruption case is Karma. He was the author of the crackdown in 2019,' Lone added. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti blamed Malik for playing important role in disempowerment of Jammu and Kashmir. 'Sorry to see Satya Pal Malik in such a critical condition undergoing dialysis following kidney failure. At the same time CBI has filed a chargesheet against him in connection with alleged corruption in the awarding of a hydropower project contract in J&K. Some may see this moment as a reckoning a complex chapter in the legacy of a man who played a pivotal role in the disempowerment & fragmentation of Jammu and Kashmir,' Mehbooba, also a former J&K chief minister, said in a post on microblogging platform X.
Indian Express
24-05-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
Explained: Now charged by CBI, story of two allegations made by ex-J&K Governor Satyapal Malik
The CBI on Monday filed a chargesheet against seven people, including former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Governor Satya Pal Malik, in a case of alleged corruption in the award of a contract for a hydel project in Kishtwar district. The agency had earlier examined Malik as a witness. In fact, it was on Malik's allegations that the case was first registered in 2022. The former Governor, 78, who has been sharply critical of the BJP in recent years, is currently admitted in New Delhi's RML Hospital with a urinary infection and sepsis. In October 2021, two years after leaving office as J&K Governor, Malik claimed he had been offered Rs 300 crore in bribes to clear two files: one concerning 'Ambani'' and the other an 'RSS functionary''. 'One of the secretaries told me that these are shady deals, but he can get Rs 150 crore each. I told him that I had come to J&K with five kurta-pajamas and would leave with that,' Malik said at an event in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. Malik was referring to the rollout of a group health insurance policy for government employees, for which the J&K government had tied up with Anil Ambani's Reliance General Insurance Private Ltd (RGIPL), and alleged irregularities in the award of a contract for civil works in the Kiru Hydro Electric Project (HEP) on the Chenab river. Six months after Malik made these allegations, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said that the government had decided to hand over the probe in these cases to the CBI. The cases were formally referred to the agency on March 23, 2022, after which the CBI registered two separate FIRs. After the existing insurance scheme with ICICI Lombard came to an end in 2017, the J&K government floated tenders for a better and more expansive scheme for its employees. Upon receiving only one bid, the government hired Trinity Reinsurance Brokers Ltd (TRBL) to float tenders on its behalf. This time, seven companies bid, and RGIPL was awarded the contract in September 2018, days after Malik assumed office as Governor, on L1 basis. (Its quoted annual premium of Rs 8,777 was the lowest.) The scheme became operational on October 1, and the J&K government disbursed Rs 61 crore to RGIPL as advance payment. This transfer, allegedly made 'without the necessary approvals of the Chief Secretary or the Governor', raised red flags in Raj Bhawan, The Indian Express had reported in 2018. Amid protests by government employees about high premiums and the absence of an opt-out, Malik cancelled the deal, saying 'it was full of fraud'. Sources in the J&K government had told The Indian Express in 2018 that TRBL was allegedly a front for a major business conglomerate, and that 'changes were made [to the tender process] to accommodate Reliance'. In 2021, the J&K Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) said 'no irregularity has been found in the matter', but recommended the recovery of Rs 44 crore from RGIPL since the scheme was cancelled less than a month after it became operational. The Finance Department in February 2022 opined that there were indeed irregularities in the award of the contract. A little more than a month later, the probe was handed to the CBI. The central agency's FIR named RGIPL and TRBL as accused, and said that the J&K government's allegations 'prima facie disclose that unknown officials of Finance Department…with TRBL, RGIPL and other unknown public servants and private persons have committed the offences of criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct to cause pecuniary advantage to themselves… thereby in this manner cheated the government of J&K'. The Enforcement Directorate is also investigating the matter. In January 2024, the ED provisionally attached immovable and movable properties worth Rs 36.57 crore linked to the case. 'The investigation revealed that the Finance Department deliberately awarded the tender for engagement of intermediary [TRBL] for designing and floating the tender… by dubious or questionable selection/ shortlisting process,' the ED has said. The case pertains to the award of a contract for civil works to the tune of Rs 2,200 crore in the Kiru HEP in Jammu's Kishtwar district by the Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt Ltd (CVPPPL) in 2019 to Patel Engineering Ltd. The contract was for the construction of a diversion tunnel, concrete dam, pressure shafts, cofferdams, tailrace tunnels, and a powerhouse. The CBI FIR notes that the ACB and the J&K power department had investigated the matter. 'Perusal of [their] reports reveals that in award of civil works package of Kiru HEP, guidelines regarding e-tendering were not followed, and [although] a decision was taken in the 47th Board Meeting of CVPPPL for re-tender through e-tendering with reverse auction, after cancellation of ongoing tendering process, [the] same was not implemented and the tender was finally awarded to M/s Patel Engineering,' the FIR states. The project, whose cost is estimated to be Rs 4,287 crore, has been marred by allegations of sub-standard work and failure to provide jobs to local youths, one of its main selling points. The ACB had observed that the tender for the project had been cancelled in 47th Board Meeting of CVPPPL, but was revived in the 48th Meeting and awarded to Patel Engineering. Apart from Malik, others named in the CBI's chargesheet are: M S Babu, MD of CVPPPL; board directors M K Mittal and Arun Kumar Mishra; private secretaries Virendra Rana and Kanwar Singh Rana; Rupen Patel, MD of Patel Engineering; and a certain Kanwaljit Singh Duggal.
Hans India
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
CBI files charge sheet against ex-J&K Guv Malik
Jammu: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a charge sheet against former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik and five others in the Kiru hydroelectric power project kickbacks case. In 2022, the Jammu and Kashmir government requested a CBI investigation into the alleged corruption in the allotment of a Rs 2,200 crore contract for civil works in the Kiru hydroelectric power project. In 2024, the CBI carried out searches at eight locations in Delhi and Jammu. Interestingly, the concern of kickbacks in the allotment of this contract was raised by Malik himself when he was the Jammu and Kashmir Governor from August 23, 2018 to October 30, 2019. Malik then alleged that he had been offered a bribe of Rs 300 crore to approve two files, one of which pertained to the Kiru hydroelectric power project, but he had refused to accept it. The award of civil works to Patel Engineering Ltd, a major infrastructure and construction company that was founded in 1949, has been called into question. The CBI booked Chenab Valley Power Projects Private Limited (CVPPPL) Chairman, MD and Directors, along with Patel Engineering. The FIR said an investigation had been conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Power Department and it was found that guidelines for e-tendering in the awarding of civil works in the project were not followed. Further, allegations of substandard work and failure to provide jobs to local youth have been made against the hydel project. Kiru hydroelectric power project is a run-of-the-river scheme being developed over the Chenab River in the Kishtwar Tehsil of Kishtwar district in J&K. The project is being constructed between Kirthai II (upstream) and Kwar (downstream) hydroelectric plants. The project is being developed by Chenab Valley Power Projects, a joint venture between the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC, 49 per cent), the Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC, 49 per cent), and the Power Trading Corporation (PTC, 2 per cent). It is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 4,287 crore for an installed capacity of 624 MW. It was awarded scoping clearance by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in 2008. Environment clearance was issued in 2016, and the project received approval from the State Administrative Council (SAC) in 2019. The foundation stone for the hydroelectric power plant was laid in 2019, while the deadline for initiating commercial operations is July 2025.
India Today
22-05-2025
- Health
- India Today
Former J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik hospitalised in Delhi, condition critical
Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik's health is critical and he is hospitalised at the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi. He is suffering from severe complications related to a urinary tract infection that has now led to kidney failure, sources told India Today was hospitalised on May 11 after he reportedly experienced extreme pain and difficulty in passing urine. A close aide of Satya Pal Malik has confirmed that both of his kidneys have now stopped functioning, and his condition remains extremely he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, but the infection has now severely damaged his kidneys," a senior doctor from RML Hospital stated on condition of anonymity. "We are doing everything we can, but the situation is very grave," sources said. Earlier on Thursday, the CBI chargesheeted the former Rajya Sabha MP in connection with an alleged corruption case in which civil works contracts for the Kiru Hydroelectric Power Project, valued at approximately Rs 2,200 crore, were sources close to him have strongly denied his involvement in the case, calling the move politically motivated."We were the complainants in this case. Satyapal Malik has no involvement whatsoever," his close aide said. "This chargesheet appears to be an act of vendetta politics".Malik, who has previously served as the Governor of multiple states, including Jammu and Kashmir and Goa, has often been vocal on matters of public integrity and national deteriorating health has prompted reactions from several political and civil society leaders, who are keeping a close watch on both his medical and legal Watch IN THIS STORY#Jammu and Kashmir
