Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, May 19: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today expressed surprise that even after lapse of five months the NDA government has not been able to trace the fugitives Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and several others involved in Rs 13000 crore loot of Punjab National Bank. The party said the exercise of enforcement directorate (ED) of sending summons to these criminals through emails will not at all serve any purpose and ensure punishment to them.
The spokesman of the party said here on Saturday that after failing to serve email summons to Nirav Modi and Choksi, now the ED has sent these electronic summons to Nirav’s father and other family members who were his partners in the loot and now settled abroad. The spokesman said how ED could expect them to respond to emails and comply with orders when the main accused Nirav did not do so. The spokesman said this is nothing more than paper exercise and with this way the government will never be able to bring them to justice. The spokesman said if the criminals started responding to such emails, then other tactics would become redundant. It is simply directionless, the spokesman said, adding the failure of governmental agencies in tracking them down abroad is indeed shocking and reflected on their poor functioning. Pointing out that electronic summons are meaningless in such a case, the spokesman said the NDA government also appeared to be dilly-dallying in the matter for some mysterious reasons.
The spokesman said with extremely slow pace it will be difficult to bring back these criminals to India and ensure stringent punishment. The spokesman said both the criminals Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi have made it clear to CBI that they would not return to India as they are busy in their business abroad. The spokesman said CBI is either helpless or politically under pressure to go slow to fade the case from the memory of the people, as has happened in previous such corruption issues. The spokesman said the NDA government has passed Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill to empower probe agencies but it has not helped in any way. The spokesman said there is no dearth of law in the country to act against the criminals but it required political will which NDA government lacked in this case.
The spokesman said the fraud has amply exposed weaknesses in the bank’s security system and maintenance of its records. The spokesman said with Rs 13000 crore PNB fraud, biggest ever in the banking sector the sector has totally failed to evolve a fool proof safeguard to protect the money of the customers. The spokesperson said banking sector in collusion with the politicians and businessmen has virtually pushed the entire financial system to the collapse.
