Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his corruption jibe at the Opposition, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused him of running a "bhrashtachari bhagao abhiyan" (make the corrupt flee campaign), and said that he must stop his image makeover by posing as an anti-corruption crusader.
Surjewala alleged that Mehta and his family were allowed to leave India even when there were complaints pending against him with the CBI.
Despite Nirav Modi win, in the last five years, India managed to bring only about 20 fugitive offenders.
During April-September 2010-11, exports from the tax free enclaves had clocked Rs 1.39 lakh crore (Rs 1.39 trillion).
All these companies were provided loans by PNB as part of consortium lending.
The opposition party questioned why the government took five years after the liquidation proceedings of ABG Shipyard to lodge an FIR in connection with the alleged duping of 28 banks.
Following the Supreme Court's directive, a medical team in Ahmedabad gave permission for termination of a minor rape victim's 25-week-old pregnancy though the law allows abortion only until the 20th week.
It further said that the loan application form should be suitably modified to incorporate passport details of borrowers.
'It can't be a coincidence that he and his family, uncles and all, vanished from India only days before the scam was discovered.'
Bad loans of PSBs are at Rs 20 trillion. Most of it is, I sense, due to corruption and behest lending. Nobody pays a price for this charade. Not the promoters, the bankers, RBI officials, finance ministry bureaucrats or politicians, points out Debashis Basu.
There are around 6,500 diamond manufacturers of which Palanpuri Jains operate a mere 6 per cent, or around 400 companies. But they stand out for being highly interlinked through blood ties.
The company and its sister concern, Forever Precious, owe close to Rs 5,500 crore.
India's five leading wilful defaulters are Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd and associate Forever Precious Jewellery & Diamonds, Zoom Developers, Kingfisher Airlines, Beta Naphthol and Raza Textiles
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