The recommendations gain significance in view of reports of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi moving to Antigua from the US and getting a local passport of the Caribbean country
The number of wilful defaulters was 9,063, which represents a marginal increase of 1.66 per cent during the nine months of the current financial year, government said
It is a fine line for banks whether they can block any effort by wilful defaulter to bid for his own firm
There has been a 10% increase in the number of willful defaulters
To recover loans from such defaulters, banks have filed 1,724 FIRs with a total outstanding of Rs 21,509 crore in FY16
Arun Jaitley said parliament is looking into a Bill relating to debt recovery which aims at empowering banks to take more effective steps
Union also demanded filing criminal cases against these defaulters
Around Rs 70,000 crore public money has been blocked with wilful defaulters in India
Last week, Sebi made amendments to key regulations that govern capital raising activities to ensure that wilful defaulters do not get access to capital markets
Rs 1.73 lakh cr of public sector bank money stuck in top 100 non-performing accounts as of Dec 2015
Regulator aims to cut off access to capital markets, protecting small investor who may not know of default status