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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches at six locations in Hyderabad in connection with a bank-fraud case against the promoters and directors of a company and its associate entities. The ED initiated its investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the CBI in Hyderabad against SEW LSY Highways Limited and others under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act for allegedly siphoning off and diverting loan funds, cheating and criminal misconduct, resulting in the loss of public money, the agency said in a statement. The federal agency's Hyderabad zonal office conducted search operations on Tuesday at six locations in Hyderabad under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with a bank-fraud case against SEW Infrastructure Limited (SIL), Prasad and Company (Project Works) Private Limited (PSPWPL), group companies and their promoters and directors, the statement
Lenders have added about 25,000 beneficiaries under the Tarun Plus category of PM Mudra Yojana (PMMY) in a 4-month short period of FY25 where borrowers were given enhanced loans up to Rs 20 lakh. The scheme was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her last July Budget. As per the Budget 2024-25 announcement, loan limit was doubled to Rs 20 lakh for those entrepreneurs who have availed and successfully repaid previous loans under the 'Tarun' category. Following the Budget announcement, the Tarun Plus scheme was notified on October 25, 2024. As many as 24,557 new borrowers took loan under the Tarun Plus category amounting to Rs 3,790 crore in a short period of four months during FY25, Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju told media while briefing about achievements of PMMY. He further said that generally Rs 5-6 lakh crore loans are sanctioned under the scheme in a year of late. The PMMY was launched on April 8, 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the goal of
Fintechs' portfolio outstanding in the riskier personal loans segments dropped by 10 per cent in the September quarter, a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the sector said on Monday. In a data release -- which comes amid concerns on the personal loans front, which have even led to actions from RBI to curb lending in it -- Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE) said the loan outstanding dropped to Rs 66,683 crore at the end of September compared to Rs 74,057 crore in June. The SRO said loans unpaid for over 90 days increased to 3.4 per cent from 3.2 per cent in June. West Bengal (4.1 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (3.7 per cent), Rajasthan and Gujarat (3.6 per cent) each had the highest incident of stress, it added. The first half of the fiscal witnessed a reduction in the average ticket size per borrower to Rs 9,225 against Rs 10,222 in FY24, it said, adding that 41 per cent of the loans in the first half were under Rs 25,000. Digital personal loans by Fintech NBFCs ..
Capital markets regulator Sebi has segregated dues to the tune of Rs 76,293 crore under "difficult to recover" category at the end of March 2024, marking an increase of 4 per cent from the preceding year. Of this, a huge chunk is on account of cases pending before court-appointed committees. Difficult to recover (DTR) dues are those that could not be recovered even after exhausting all modes of recovery. "Segregation of such DTR dues is purely an administrative act and this will not preclude the recovery officers from recovering the amount so segregated as DTR as and when there is a change in any of the DTR parameters," Sebi said in its annual report for 2023-24. As of March 31, 2024, Sebi identified 807 cases as DTR, with a total outstanding of Rs 76,293 crore, up from 692 cases amounting to Rs 73,287 crore the previous year, according to the report. Among these 807 cases, 36 are pending due to ongoing proceedings in State PID courts, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Nationa