SC summons Subrata Roy, Sahara group directors

February 20, 2014 07:18 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 07:51 pm IST - New Delhi

A file photo of Subrata Roy, founder and chairman of the Sahara India.

A file photo of Subrata Roy, founder and chairman of the Sahara India.

Coming down heavily on the Sahara group for not refunding Rs 20,000 crore of investors money despite its order, the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned its chief Subrata Roy to be personally present before it and allowed SEBI to go ahead with the sale of companies’ properties.

The apex court also directed Ravi Shankar Dubey, Ashok Roy Choudhary and Vandana Bhargava, directors of its firms -- Sahara India Real Estate Corp Ltd (SIREC) and Sahara India Housing Investment Corp Ltd (SHIC) -- to appear before it on February 26.

A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar also asked SEBI to sell the properties of the group whose sale deeds were handed over to the market regulator to recover Rs 20,000 crore.

“Those properties you can sell. We allow you to sell them and recover the money. If they are encumbered properties then you can file criminal case against the company. The case must be brought to a logical conclusion,” the bench said raising question on the way the group has been defying its order for the last one-and-a-half years.

The bench said SEBI can put those properties on auction and get the money.

“What is the difficulty in selling the property. Put it on auction and get the money. Forget about the value of the property,” the bench told SEBI after the market regulator said that let the company itself sell the properties and deposit the money.

“Our feeling is that they won’t do it and we don’t trust them so you do it,” the bench said.

The apex court in its judgement of August 31, 2012 had directed SEBI to attach properties and recover the money.

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