Victim deposit holders of Cooperative Bank of Punjab and Maharashtra have decided to take the case to court against the implementation of the final merger plan between PMC and Unity Small Finance Bank (SFB) approved by the government on Tuesday.
PMC Bank depositors led by Sahakar Bharati, the cooperative protection agency founded by RBI board member Satish Marathe, have decided to petition the Supreme Court against the scheme. In a press release on Wednesday, Sahakar Bharati argued that the merger was one-sided and unfair to savers.
It also urged the RBI and the government to review the scheme, which proposes instalment payments to all depositors over 10 years, zero interest payments on deposits for five years after March 31, 2021, and payments of up to 2.75 on unpaid deposits % interest after that.
“Sahakar Bharati will take the lead with PMC depositors/associations and will appeal to the Supreme Court to acknowledge the difficulties faced by PMC depositors due to long lock-up periods of at least 10 years and ridiculously low interest rates ranging from 1% to 2.75%,” News Draft title.
Instead, the agency requires all depositors to have a maximum lock-up period of five years and pay depositors a minimum 6% interest rate during that time. In addition, the Deposit Insurance Guarantee Corporation Scheme (DICGC) was launched to provide liquidity support for full repayment by banks.
It claimed that the stress on PMC Bank was not the usual bank failures, but cases of fraud.
Separately, the depositor group PMC Bank Account Holders Forum has decided to relocate the High Court. “This is our predicament, even after the final plan, it’s bad for retail depositors as well as institutional and long-term depositors. It’s totally against shareholders because it wipes out all equity. The whole plan benefits SFB because they Not only a license, but all of PMC Bank’s assets for charity,” said Dipika Sahani, PMC Bank Account Holders Forum Coordinator.
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