The CBI is conducting searches at 16 locations across India over the alleged graft flagged by former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik in awarding contract for Rs 2,200 crore civil work for the Kiru Hydro Power Project in Kishtwar in 2019. The search operations are spread across two places in Srinagar, five in Jammu, five in Delhi, three in Mumbai and one in Patna at the premises of middlemen and associates involved in the project.In its three-month probe, the CBI has detected some financial transactions between the accused public servants, including the then Chaiman of the Chenab Valley Power Projects (P) Ltd Navin Kumar Chaudhary and middlemen.