PIL in SC alleges Rs 1,500 cr banking fraud, seeks court-monitored probe

NEW DELHI: (Jun 8) A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking a court-monitored probe into alleged banking frauds involving asset reconstruction companies, public sector banks and a Noida-based infrastructure firm.

The PIL has sought a direction to the Centre “to constitute a judicial commission or an expert committee including officers of the RBI, SEBI, Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), ED and the CBI to investigate the corporate and banking fraud facilitated by the asset reconstruction companies (ARCs)”.

The plea, filed through lawyers Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay and Ashwani Kumar Dubey, as an alternate prayer, has sought a “direction to the ED, SFIO and CBI to investigate suspicious transactions identified in an Ernst & Young forensic audit report” into the affairs of the infrastructure firm and the ARC.