Srinagar, April 21 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at 14 locations across the country during the investigation of two cases of alleged corruption in a hydroelectric power project and a discontinued health insurance scheme in Jammu and Kashmir.

The CBI had registered two separate cases on the request from Jammu & Kashmir Government after former Governor Satyapal Malik alleged irregularities in the two mega projects.
Officials said the cases include the alleged corruption and malpractices in award of contract of J&K Employees Health Care Insurance Scheme to private company and release of Rs 60 crore in the year 2017-18 and the second case is awarding of the contract worth Rs 2200 crore of civil works of Kiru Hydro Electric Power Project (HEP) to a private firm in the year 2019.
Officials said the raids were conducted at Jammu, Srinagar, Delhi, Mumbai, Noida, Trivandrum (Kerala), Darbhanga (Bihar) at the premises of the accused including private companies, then Chairman, then MD, then Directors of Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt Ltd (CVPPPL).
There are atleast five accused in the awarding of the contract of HEP to a private firm.
The first accused include J&K top bureaucrat Navin Choudhary who was the former chairman of CVVPPL. The other accused in the case are M.S.Babu, then MD, CVPPPL; M.K.Mittal, then Director, CVPPPL; Arun Kumar Mishra, then Director, CVPPPL; M/s Patel Engineering Ltd and unknown others
In the second case of discontinued health insurance scheme, the accused include M/s Trinity Reinsurance Brokers Limited, M/s Reliance General Insurance Company Limited and unknown public servant(s) and private person(s)