Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala released the list of the defaulters while sharing the response of the RBI to the query filed by activist Saket Gokhale.

Over Rs 68,600 crore of loans of wilful defaulters including Mallya, Choksi written off: RBI

NEW DELHI: Banks have technically written off a whopping Rs 68,607 crore in outstanding loans of top 50 wilful defaulters, including of firms belonging to fugitive economic offenders Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya, till September 30, 2019, according to details provided by the Reserve Bank of India to an RTI query. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala released the list of the defaulters while sharing the response of the RBI to the query filed by activist Saket Gokhale. In his reaction, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said he had asked the government in Parliament the names of the top 50 bank loan defaulters but the finance minister did not answer his question. The Congress alleged the government waived loans worth Rs 6.66 lakh crore since 2014 till September 2019. According to the RTI reply, absconding dimantaire Choksi's company Gitanjali Gems tops the list of the defaulters with a whopping amount of Rs 5,492 crore. Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines figures in the list at number 9, with outstanding of Rs 1943 crore which have been technically written off by the banks. Vikram Kothari's Rotomac is the fourth in the list, according to the details provided by the RBI, according to the RTI reply. In the last Parliament session, Rahul Gandhi had asked the government to provide a list of top 50 bank loans defaulters in the country, leading to sharp exchanges and uproar in the Lok Sabha. "This is a classic case of promoting 'dupe, deceive and depart' policy of the Modi government, which can no longer be accepted and the prime minister has to answer," he told reporters through video conference. The RBI said that according to section 8 (1)(a) of RTI Act 2005 read with para 77 of Supreme Court judgement of December 16, 2015 in Jayantilal N Mistry case, information on overseas borrowers is exempted from public disclosure.

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