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What to make of the ex-banker's arrest?

The rationale for such humungous bad loans is often the first - genuine business failures

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Debashis Basu
About a week ago, the Rajasthan Police arrested former State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Pratip Chaudhuri following an order by the chief judicial magistrate’s (CJM) court in Jaisalmer. He was remanded in 14-day custody after the court rejected his bail application. The judge was acting on a protest petition filed by former directors of Hotel Gaudavan, who alleged that SBI had sold their Rs 200 crore worth property for just Rs 25 crore to Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company after the owners had defaulted on a loan. Mr Chaudhuri, the complainants alleged, was chairman in 2013, when the decision taken
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