August 5, 2024
Kalyan Banerjee’s supplementary question during Question Hour in on whether the government is ensuring that poor investors are being refunded the money deposited in Sahara Group and PACL Limited
Hon. Speaker, Sir, I was listening to the answer given by the hon. Finance Minister. Now, it comes into two categories. One category includes the poor people who have come and approached, and have got the money. The second category is this. The rest of the money has not been distributed since no applications or claims have been filed. These are the two categories. Sir, now, the point is this. The past experience with regard to these types of schemes has been that in the name of poor people, the rich people come. There are so many investments in which the benami transactions are there. My question is this. You have got the applications and claims from the persons, and you have distributed the money. The rest of the list containing the details of those who have not got the money, is also there. Then, in furtherance of this, why is the ED not making any investigation to find out who are these people — whether they are genuine or not? It is because these schemes are for the poor people. The rich people should not get any benefit out of such schemes. Why is there no investigation? I would like to know whether any investigation has been initiated. Why are the names of such people not coming?
