Congress MPs led by party chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in parliament…
Congress President Rahul Gandhi (Photo: IANS/File)
Congress MPs led by party chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in parliament premises over the PNB scam.
The agitating parliamentarians blamed the Narendra Modi government for failing to detect the Rs.12,600 crore scam and allowing main accused diamond czar Nirav Modi to escape the country.
The MPs continued their protest inside the Lok Sabha as wells stalling the proceedings. As a result, the lower house was adjourned till 12 pm.
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Nirav Modi along with his uncle Mehul Choksi, owner of Gitanjali Group, have been accused of defrauding the Punjab National Bank of Rs.12,600 crore, including Rs.1,300 crore being added to the fraud kitty on February 26.
The CBI had filed the first FIR in the scam on February 14 against Nirav Modi, his wife Ami, brother Nishal, uncle Choksi and his firms Diamond R US, Solar Exports and Stellar Diamond.
Modi, his family and Choksi had left the country in early January.
The CBI filed a second FIR on February 15 for a Rs 4,886.72-crore fraud against Choksi’s Gitanjali Group.
Till date, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried out searches at over 198 locations across the country and seized properties worth nearly Rs 6,000 crore, while the CBI has arrested at least 18 persons in the case so far.
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