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Sebi to auction Sahara properties at Rs 1,900 crore reserve price

SBI Capital Markets and HDFC Realty will carry out the auction on Jyly 13 & 15.

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Markets regulator Sebi will sell Sahara Group's land parcels through an e-auction next month. The reserve price has been set at Rs 1,900 crore. 

The auction would be conducted by SBI Capital Markets and HDFC Realty, which have been tasked to auction 61 land parcels, on July 13 and July 15 respectively.

Besides, the two are already scheduled to e-auction five properties each on July 7 and July 4 respectively at a reserve price of nearly Rs 1,200 crore.

At the reserve price, these auctions will take the total fund raising to at least Rs 3,100 crore.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) roped in HDFC Realty and SBI Cap after being asked by the Supreme Court to initiate the process of selling Sahara properties whose titles have been deposited with it by the group.

HDFC Realty has been asked to auction a total of 31 land parcels at Rs 2,400 crore, while SBI Cap has been tasked to auction another 30 land properties with an estimated market value of about Rs 4,100 crore.

In a public notice issued, SBI Cap said it will e-auction as many as eight land parcels on July 13 between 10.30 am and 11.30 am. These properties will fetch over Rs 1,196 crore - the reserve price.

HDFC Realty will also e-auction five land parcels on July 15 between 11 am and 12 am at a reserve price of over Rs 702 crore, it said in a separate notice.

These properties are located in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. The assets being sold are residential, agricultural and non-agricultural land.

Interested bidder can inspect these land parcels between June 16 and June 17.

As per the court directions, these properties cannot be sold at less than 90% of circle rates.

After spending two years in jail, Sahara chief Subrata Roy is currently out on parole. He was sent to jail on the orders of the Supreme Court in a long running dispute with Sebi.

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