New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Saturday said that the former J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik turned up at the police station in the city‘on his own volition’ amid reports that he has been arrested.
The latest development comes a day after CBI summoned Malik as part of a probe in a corruption case.
Meanwhile, quoting sources news agency IANS reported that a Khap meeting was being underway in the area allegedly without having required permission from Delhi police or MCD. Malik is known to have taken part in it.
Malik visited police station in Delhi’s RK Puram, according to NDTV, after police picked up leaders of farmers’ groups, attended the meeting, from his home.
‘We have not detained ex-governor Satyapal Malik. He has come on his own volition along with his supporters to police station RK Puram, and we have informed him that he can leave at his own will,’ a senior police officer was quoted as saying.
Malik later stated outside the police station that police are saying they will not ‘ arrest us now’.
The CBI asked Malik to face questions on April 28 as a witness in an alleged corruption case involving Reliance General Insurance.
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.
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.