Help sahara india investors get money back, CM urged
Jan 17, 2023, 08:24 (IST)
Mahagama Deepika Pandey, a Congress MP from Jharkhand, has asked the state's Chief Minister Hemant Soren to help 16 crore people who have invested in schemes run by sahara india Cooperatives (SIC). Deepika Pandey says she has written a formal letter to Soren on January 14 to pursue the case with the Central Registrar in New Delhi to help depositors get their money back. The company owes about Rs. 50000 crore to scores of beneficiaries in the states. A delegation of all India Jan andolan Sangharsh Morcha (AISIM) met Deepika Pandey with their concerns and issues regarding sahara india Scam in January. The members of the Morcha told her that about 13 crore depositors, mainly the poor and middle class people, have invested in several financial schemes run by the company over the years. The documents given by them revealed that about 16 crore people have lost their money which is in tune of about a whopping Rs. 50000 crore. Following successive courts' rulings in regard to sahara india Scam, the Central Registrar in Delhi had on September 24, 2020 frozen financial activities of sahara india Cooperatives directing it to stop taking any deposit or deposit renewal from existing or new depositors. However,