10 crore depositors of Sahara group to get refund from escrow account
The HinduFollowing a petition by the Ministry of Cooperation, the Supreme Court on March 29 ordered the reimbursement from the Sahara-SEBI refund account to about 10 crore investors. The court ordered that out of the balance amount in the Sahara-SEBI refund account, ₹5,000 crore be transferred to the Central Registrar. Sahara Group’s four societies— Sahara Credit Cooperative Society Limited, Saharayan Universal Multipurpose Society Limited, Humara India Credit Cooperative Society Limited, and Stars Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited, were registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002 between March 2010 and January 2014. The Sahara-Sebi escrow account was formed after the apex court in August 2012 directed two Sahara firms— Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Limited and Sahara Housing India Corporation Limited — to refund investors.