The CBI had alleged that successful 2008-09, Prannoy and Radhika on with RRPR Holding Pvt Ltd entered into a transgression conspiracy with chartless officials of ICICI Bank and violated conception 19(2) of the Banking Regulation Act.
A tribunal successful Delhi Thursday accepted the CBI’s closure study successful the 2017 lawsuit against NDTV’s erstwhile directors and promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy for allegedly causing a wilful nonaccomplishment of implicit Rs 48 crore to ICICI Bank.
“Upon going done the full closure report, documents annexed with the aforesaid coupled with submissions made by ld. PP for CBI arsenic good arsenic connection fixed by the complainant to the effect that helium is satisfied with the CBI probe successful the contiguous case, this Court accepts the closure study filed by CBI arsenic nary criminality oregon usurpation of Section 19(2) of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 has been recovered by immoderate of the accused persons. Therefore, the closure study appears to beryllium satisfactory and hence it is accepted,” said Special Judge Shailender Malik of Rouse Avenue Court successful his bid dated January 23. The CBI had alleged that successful 2008-09, Prannoy and Radhika on with RRPR Holding Pvt Ltd entered into a transgression conspiracy with chartless officials of ICICI Bank and violated conception 19(2) of the Banking Regulation Act. In its closure report, the bureau stated that determination was nary collusion, transgression conspiracy, oregon maltreatment of authoritative presumption by immoderate nationalist servant.
As per the CBI, successful furtherance of the conspiracy, ICICI Bank precocious a indebtedness of Rs 375 crore and allegedly took the full shareholding of the erstwhile promoters successful NDTV (61%) arsenic collateral. However, the CBI successful its closure study submitted that the simplification of involvement rates was not an isolated incidental and the slope had reduced the involvement rates successful 83 loans from 2007 to 2010.
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