Court orders auction of propoerties of 2 chit fund cos

Cuttack | Friday | 4th February, 2022

Summary:

Cuttack, Feb 4 (PTI) A special chit fund court here on Friday directed the Cuttack administration to auction properties of two chit fund companies that had duped people who had invested their savings in their ponzi schemes.

A total 18 acres valued at Rs 1.05 crore and moveable properties of nearly Rs 9 lakh will go under the hammer.

The chit fund court, dealing exclusively on matters related to the Odisha Protection of Interest of Depositors (OPID) Act, directed distribution of the sale proceeds equitably among the investors.

Movable assets and bank deposits worth over Rs one crore of Orissa Homes Pvt.

Ltd and Trisat Estates and Construction were seized earlier under the OPID Act Landed Properties.

The finance department had passed an interim order in December 2018 attaching the seized properties of the two chit fund companies which had duped 153 people in Khurda district of Rs 7.55 crore.