SBI says it was not party to ARC case

Nov 2, 2021

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NEW DELHI: SBI on Monday mentioned that it was not a celebration to the case the place Alchemist ARC director Pratip C Chaudhuri, a former chairman of the nation’s largest lender, was arrested and the court docket could not have been “briefed appropriately” on the sequence of occasions.
The financial institution mentioned that Chaudhuri had retired from SBI in September 2013, and all administrators, who joined the ARC board a yr later, have been named within the case.
“It seems from the copies of the proceedings now accessed by us that the court docket doesn’t seem to have been briefed appropriately on the sequence of occasions. In as a lot as SBI was not a celebration to this case, there was no event for the views of SBI being heard as a part of this proceedings. SBI want to reiterate that every one due processes had been adopted whereas making the mentioned sale to ARC. The financial institution has already supplied its cooperation to the legislation enforcement and judicial authorities and can present additional data, if any that could be known as for from their facet,” SBI mentioned in an announcement.
Garh Rajwada, a lodge venture in Jaisalmer, was financed by SBI in 2007 and it remained incomplete until its key promoter died in April 2010. Two months later, the account become a non-performing asset and the financial institution initiated a number of strikes to get better the dues. In March 2014, the dues had been assigned to an ARC. “This sale to ARC by the financial institution was carried out via a laid down course of as per the coverage of the financial institution. We additional perceive that the borrower was subjected to IBC course of by the mentioned ARC and the asset has been acquired by an NBFC in December 2017, once more via due course of beneath the orders of NCLT, Delhi,” the assertion mentioned.
Whereas the borrower had initially filed an FIR with the police in opposition to the sale to the ARC, the entity subsequently filed a “protest petition” within the court docket of the chief judicial Justice of the Peace because it was “aggrieved in opposition to the damaging closure report filed by police”.



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