Question : INVOLVEMENT OF BANKS IN BOMB BLASTS



(a) whether some of the private banks in Mumbai are suspected to be involved to carrying out the serial bomb blasts in Coimbatore in early 1998;

(b) if so. the names of such banks and modus operandi in which the funds for Coimbatore blast routed through the private banks; and

(c) the details of action taken against those banks for flouting Reserve Bank of India guidelines?

Answer given by the minister


THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (SHRI ANANT GANGARAM GEETE):

(a) No such information is available.

(b) and (c) Do not arise.