Friends, the chairperson of the world's largest family,
the honorable Saharashri has arrived.
Saharashri!
Long live!
-Saharashri! -Long live!
We shall sing our beloved anthem
with such fervor and with such dedication, without missing a syllable,
that all Indians shall feel proud and overjoyed.
The man's a thief!
Rumors have even been spread,
fabricated and totally baseless.
Is that an official Sahara document?
I started by investing twenty rupees a day,
and then as my business grew, it kept going up.
So, I started investing 50 rupees, and later, 100 on a daily basis.
The best thing is that we kept investing small amounts of money.
We got more back, which helped grow the business.
I remember when I went to the office to fill out forms to become an agent,
the manager told me
that Sahara is a very good company
so you don't have to worry about it.
There was no training as such,
but first, you have to become an investor yourself,
then you can become an agent.
She became an agent
hoping to get ahead of the life she was born into.
She said, "Mummy, can you find me people to invest?"
So, I informed everyone, they all knew Punam as well,
so they all agreed and invested.
I said "Yes, let's all do it.
No reason not to."
We invested $4 monthly.
I couldn't afford that much.
I couldn't afford that - I'm only a cleaning woman.
You need it for your old age so you can look after yourself.
I was not on a salary with Sahara,
but I got an agent's commission.
So, it was all about, "get more investors, get more investors."
I tried to convince all the people around me,
like my neighbors, my colleagues, and my relatives.
The people knew me and my parents,
so they were OK...
they had faith in me.
They invested because they had faith.
It's not like it's a small company.
It's like a family.
Sahara is doing a very good job, so I thank them wholeheartedly.
It's a very good thing for us, very emotional as well.
We feel very happy and contented
when 101 unmarried girls get married.
Who was your agent?
Here is the agent.
How much is he owed now?
Four and a half to five thousand dollars.
Sir, it's because the original deposit, in his case, has been reinvested.
I see, I see. A super multiplier.
You see, when glamour is added,
it's a big thing for individuals, for the organization, for the country.
So, that's really good.
-Is it the office at Barabanki? -Yes.
-The district office? -Yes, yes.
The journey will take him the entire day.
Sixty million plus.
Sir, what kind of questions did SEBI ask of you?
They asked us about our assets.
I had hoped we would be at least offered a cup of tea.
We didn't even get that. Thank you.
SEBI's accusation is that companies of the Sahara Group
have raised $3,5 billion from investors illegally.
Listen, I promise,
when I come out, when I come back out,
I'll talk to everyone then.
When that all happened, it got reported on.
It was on TV and it was in the papers.
Then it becomes a little scary.
You get worried.
I reassured people...
told them not to worry.
At that time, I read that SEBI had given instructions
to refund the investors' money.
But, by the time SEBI became aware, it was too late.
Sahara had been calling up their agents like me,
telling us to ask our investors to reinvest their money
because there are problems with the existing accounts.
So, it was better to deposit it into another account
and earn good interest on it.
My feeling is...
it was done knowingly as a scam
because they wanted to withhold the money from the investors...
and that's how Sahara tried to show in their books to the government
that they had already given investors their money
when, in fact, they shifted the money to different accounts.
I have asked all around.
There is no one by that name living here.
Thou art the ruler Of the minds of all people
Dispenser of India's destiny...
One point one million people singing. What was the idea behind this?
It had to be done, had to be done. So, it was done.
As far as your ongoing disputes with SEBI,
the Supreme Court has clearly ordered that you should return the money.
The money, we have already paid it out, in cash.
They say I'm in contempt.
They are in the contempt.
But, hey, they are government goons - they may do what they want.
They are whimsical, fanciful, egoistic and greedy.
The man's a thief!
Sahara chief Subrata Roy
has had black ink thrown on him outside court today.
He's a thief!
The person who splashed ink on Subrata Roy's face
is saying that Sahara chief Subrata Roy has embezzled people's money.
He says he did it because people's accounts have been looted.
What's going on? What are your orders?
We have a warrant for his arrest.
For whose arrest?
Subrata Roy's arrest.
When Subrata Roy was in jail, I got a call from Sahara.
I said, "We do not want to reinvest.
Return the money because these are very poor people.
They trusted me and I don't want to break their trust."
Hello.
-Hello? -Yes?
My name is Prabhavati.
-Yes? -Is this Sahara's office?
I will connect you.
Is this Sahara's office?
He said he's connecting us soon.
We want our money.
It shouldn't be like this.
It's one thing for this to happen in small families,
but they are a big company.
They took the public's money, asking them to invest.
They assured the money will get doubled,
more than doubled,
but how could they do this to us?
-It's disconnected. -It's disconnected.
Not responding.
The service to the dialed number has been temporarily withdrawn.
Thank you.
Subrata Roy is going to have many sleepless nights.
The Supreme Court's ultimatum has sent him straight to Tihar jail.
He can still be let free
provided he presents a concrete plan for the reimbursement of money owed.
For the last three years,
the company has not been paying out at all.
I haven't even been able to get my father's paralysis treated.
He's been bedridden for almost three years.
Sir, this has been going on with everyone.
Her husband had a brain tumor.
She went to the Sahara office many times.
Eventually, her husband passed away. The company did not return a single rupee.
I told them everything.
I showed them the medical reports from all the hospitals.
But they said, what can they do without the money?
They said, "The scheme has matured,
but if we don't have the money, how can we give it to you?"
At the Sahara finance office in Kurnool,
people impacted by this organization have come out
saying their money has been taken as fixed deposits.
Approximately $150,000 has been taken by this branch alone
and not returned.
Whenever I go to Malvan,
the people first come and ask me,
"Sister, when will we get our money? When will we get our money?"
Each time, I have to tell them, "The case is not over.
Until the case is over, I can't say anything."
I feel very ashamed
that I have to give them an answer which seems to have no end.
Why did this happen?
This should not have happened.
But we don't have any enmity toward him.
Sometimes, these things happen in families.