NBCC India Ltd. is likely to remain unscathed by the corruption charges leveled against it, as the amount involved is insignificant compared to the size of the company, according to analysts.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday filed a case against NBCC India Chairman Anoop Kumar Mittal and four others for alleged corruption in a redevelopment project of the ITPO Complex at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
The alleged corruption amount of Rs 2,150 crore for a company with an order backlog of $12 billion (Rs 76,885 crore), and a market capitalisation of $3.5 billion is a non-starter by all measures, Rohit Natrajan, analyst-institutional equities at IDBI Capital Markets, told BloombergQuint. It is unclear if the prosecution can prove criminal conspiracy under Section 120B easily, and even if they do, it’s a long drawn legal battle, he said.
The case involves the allotment o
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