Former chairman of the State Financial institution of India (SBI) Pratip Chaudhuri has reportedly been arrested by the Jaisalmer Sadar police from his residence in Delhi in a mortgage rip-off case.
In response to experiences, the case is related to properties owned by Godawan Group whereby its properties had been bought for ₹24 crore following their seizing by the financial institution on the time of Chaudhuri’s tenure.
Godawan Group reportedly took out a mortgage of ₹24 crore from the SBI in 2008 for establishing a resort, even because the agency’s different resort was working on the time. Nonetheless, it wasn’t late until the resort was termed Non-Performing Belongings (NPA) over non-repayment of the mortgage. Later, the financial institution went on to grab each the accommodations of the Godawan Group and promote them to the Alchemist ARC Firm at ₹25 crore.
On account of this, the Godawan Group approached the court docket. Throughout evaluation of the bought properties in 2017 after Alchemist ARC took over them the previous 12 months, it was revealed that their market worth was at ₹160 crore. Presently, the price of the properties is evaluated to ₹200 crore, experiences acknowledged.
Notably, Chaudhuri joined the Alchemist as a director following his retirement from the SBI.
Stories stated that Alchemist’s Alok Dhir, in opposition to whom an arrest warrant was issued as effectively alongside Chaudhuri, has managed to flee. The chief judicial of the Justice of the Peace court docket in Jaisalmer, has issued the arrest warrant in opposition to six different people as effectively – RK Kapur, SV Venkatakrishnan, Sasi Methadil, Devendra Jain, Tarun and Vijay Kishore Sazena, experiences added.
Calling Chaudhuri’s arrest “completely pathetic,” former deputy managing director (MD) of the SBI, Sunil Srivastava took to Twitter earlier within the day to quote his views. “Is the system being gamed once more by defaulters regardless of all efforts by [the] Modi authorities? Time for overhaul of judicial processes to enhance transparency and introduce accountability,” he tweeted.
Chaudhuri retired because the chairman of the SBI in 2013. He was succeeded by Arundhati Bhattacharya, who grew to become the primary lady to tackle the position in 206 years. Bhattacharya’s tenure led to 2016 as per regulation.