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Indians and Bank Robbers


Sensible Indians often rue the fact that invaders from prehistoric times have plundered our precious belongings while ravaging our heritage keeping long and imperishable impact in our country’s soul.

 

Our ancestors gave their blood and sweat towards making this country free from foreign rulers and making it a better place for living for us.

 

Alas! They never had dreamt of this breed of ostensible Indians, mastering the craft of fleecing fellow countrymen, else they’d have got dejected with the current scenario. 

 

Financial frauds are not new to India. The largest being  when government owned UCO bank was found to defrauded $3.2 billion (More than Rs.20,000  Crore).   The act of Nirav Modi, his uncle and ally Mehul Choksi, along with some devious bank employees of Punjab National Bank have scored the second largest financial scam in the country.  The PNB is the second largest money lender in the country and yet the way it has been defrauded points out that how easy it is for the fraudsters to manipulate the loopholes in our system. If we can add the cases like Vijay Mallya and other wilful defaulters (Banks have filed recovery suits worth Rs64,743 crore against wilful defaulters), it becomes alarming how country’s economy is getting disintegrated gradually.

 

One can assume that this is only the tip of the iceberg what we are looking at and there are many such cases, going to surface, provided unequivocal political willingness.   

 

We often brag being the largest democracy on earth and our eminent leaders whom we cast our precious mandate to elect and to serve us, always preach pro-people agenda. Incidents like Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya and the measures initiated by government and its machineries are all post facto and it will always cast aspersions about their willingness to set right the issues. But, then in India everything is politicized and will be seen in the color of their choice.

 

Midst of all, commoners will keep on suffering as collateral of the incident yet hope to get things amended from their choicest color.


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