Overview
- SEBI’s FY2024-25 annual report marks Rs 77,800.4 crore as difficult to recover, a slight year-on-year rise under administrative parameters.
- Collective investment schemes and legacy PACL and Sahara cases make up about 61% of the roughly Rs 1.05 lakh crore SEBI seeks to recover.
- More than 72% of the total dues are stalled in parallel proceedings before the Supreme Court, SAT, NCLT, NCLAT and state PID courts.
- SEBI’s Special Enforcement Cell has recovered Rs 16,138 crore and placed Rs 24,227 crore in fixed deposits under Supreme Court directives, and refunded Rs 138.07 crore to eligible Sahara bondholders.
- Penalties jumped to Rs 813.8 crore in FY25, inspections more than doubled, and SEBI pledged regulatory simplifications with a proposed SWAGAT-FI single-window system.