Justice C N Ramachandran Nair said that the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act which came into effect in 2002 should be removed since it has brought much harm to the loan borrowers from banks. If not revoked, it should be amended so as to benefit the borrowers, he said.
Justice Ramachandran was speaking at the inauguration of a seminar on implications of action taken by the bankers against borrowers under SARFAESI Act.
“The Act was brought into effect to help banks so that they could recover their dues from the borrowers. It has helped the bankers. However, it has given them unnecessary power since they can auction off the properties of the owner without their consent at a much lesser price than the market price. This will bring huge losses to the borrower as the market price of land is presently at an all time high,” Justice Ramachandran said.
Speaking about the atrocities being meted out by the bankers to the borrowers through this Act around the country, the High Court Justice pressed for the need of the Parliamentarians to amend the Act so that the owner gets a right to sell his land at his own price, after the bank auctions off a portion of the land to get back his dues. Justice Ramachandran added many suicides have been committed in the past because the borrowers, especially the farmers, are not provided any security.
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