SKS Microfinance scrip tanks 5% on BSE
SKS Microfinance scrip tanks 5% on BSE
Mumbai: SKS Microfinance on Friday tumbled over 5% in the afternoon trade at the Bombay Stock Exchange, after the Andhra Pradesh Police arrested three people working with it and another small lender Spandana, on a complaint of harassment by a borrower.
Shares of SKS Microfinance, the only listed microfinance entity in the country, took a sharp hit and plunged by 5.11% to touch a month’s low of Rs1,050 on the BSE in the noon trade.
The Andhra Pradesh Police also said that it might book the promoters -- Vikram Akula of SKS and Padmaja Reddy of Spandana -- under a new Ordinance that aims at checking coercive methods of loan recovery by small lenders.
SKS scrip had opened the session on a positive note, but went into a tailspin on the news of the arrest.
On the National Stock Exchange, the company was trading at Rs1,067, down 3.73%.
The case was filed by the borrower, Ammulu, last night under Section 16 of the AP Microfinance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Ordinance-2010.
SKS Microfinance is holding its board meeting today.
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