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Subrata Roy's parole continues, asked to pay Rs 600 cr by Feb 6
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SME Times News Bureau | 29 Nov, 2016
Sahara Chief Subrata Roy will continue to remain on parole as Supreme
Court on Monday asked him to deposit Rs 600 crore by February 6 next
year as the group submitted the road map for returning Rs 11,036 crores
in next two and half years.
Asking Sahara to deposit Rs 600
crore, the bench of Chief Justice T.S.Thakur, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and
Justice A.K.Sikri asked why don't they reverse the road map to start
depositing Rs 1,000 crore per month for refunding Rs 24,000 crore of
more than three crore investors.
Besides Ray, the parole of his son-in-law Ashok Roy Choudhary and Sahara's Director Ravi Shankar Dubey too has been extended.
Sahara
group's two companies - Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Ltd
(SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Ltd (SHICL) -- had
raised the money, through optionally fully convertible debenture, from
about 3.3 crore investors in 2008 and 2009.
The apex court by its
August 31, 2012 order directed the SIRECL and SHICL to return the
investors' Rs 17,600 crore with 15 per cent interest.
Perusing
the road map for depositing money in SEBI Sahara Refund account for
returning investors money by the market regulator, Justice Gogoi said:
"If you don't do it we will seriously consider appointing a receiver
..."
The court was told that Sahara has deposited Rs 1,200 crore
ever since Roy was released on parole on May 6 to perform the last rites
of his mother. Senior counsel Kapil Sibal, appearing for Roy, told the
court that so far they have deposited Rs 11,000 crore with the market
regulator and there is a balance of Rs 11036 crore.
However, Sibal told the court that Sebi put the balance figures at Rs 14,000 crore.
As
he tried to suggest that some of the properties auctioned by the market
regulator were at a low price and could have been sold at a higher
price, the bench observed: "(Every time) either you come saying they
(Sebi) are selling dirt cheap or someone else comes offering higher
price and it continue like that.
"We have not restrained you from
creating assets, we have restrained you from alienating them", the
court observed as Sibal said that their "hands were tied" and even they
wanted, they can't do anything.
Sibal had expressed the
haplessness of Sahara group as a lawyer told the court that her client
has deposited the money for a flat in one of its housing projects but
there was nothing on the ground.
The next hearing is on February 6.
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