Accusing the PMO and the Finance Ministry of maintaining silence on the Faridabad based SRS Group defrauding banks, including the State Bank of India of ₹6,978 Crore, the Indian National Congress on Monday demanded that the Government break its silence and reveal why it allowed three people associated with the SRs Group to flee from the country.

INC spokesman Randeep Surjewala told the media that while one of the kingpins Anil Jindal was arrested in April this year, three others, namely JK Garg, PK Kapoor and Prateek Jindal (Anil’s son) , were allowed to escape from the country.

The Jindal family, he said, enjoyed close relations with the Prime Minister in Delhi and Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. As many as 22 cases of cheating and fraud were registered against Anil Jindal by Faridabad Police.

Surjewala also charged the Government of arm-twisting the Life Insurance Corporation into buying the state owned IDBI bank, which has performed poorly. While policy holders of LIC will pay for the bank’s losses, NPAs and amounts written off, the Government will gain by pocketing the sales by way of disinvestment, he pointed out.