He has paid the bail, his properties are being sold and he claims to have paid off investors. Subrata Roy may win a breather from the court.
While India faces a particularly harsh summer, one of its most flamboyant— and most tainted— businessmen might just manage a reprieve from the heat in his prison accommodat ion. As the Supreme Court goes on its summer vacation, there is a strong indication that Subrata Roy will finally get the break he has been looking forward to for the past 26 months.
In judicial custody for the last two years, the self-styled Saharasri’s lawyers told a Supreme Court bench led by the Chief Justice of India that Roy has paid Rs 200 crore short of the Rs 5,000-crore cash component required for the bail as per the apex court’s order. The money has been paid into the SEBI-Sahara repayment account.
The second condition set by the SC was that Roy arrange for a bank guarantee for the same amount. Roy has failed to obtain that despite owning prime real estate around the world. Eventually, the Securities and Exchange Board of India has engaged two agencies (SBI Caps and HDFC Realty) to conduct e-auctions for 60 properties. The transactions are to be completed in the next four months.
On April 27, Rajeev Dhavan, Roy’s law yer, asked the apex court to at least grant Roy parole for 180 days or alternately place him under house arrest, since the two agencies were now auctioning the properties and that made the bank guarantee exercise redundant. The SC bench seemed receptive, but has also sought a complete list of Sahara’s properties, indicating that now the court could direct SEBI to liquidate as many of them as required to recover the debt.
This story is from the May 09, 2016 edition of Outlook.
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