the courtordered amount with them according to the apex court order of august 2012 whatever was the total amount that needed to be recovered irrespective of what was repaid to investors is not fully paid yet if my memory serves me right the amount appeared in a section of the media is only the principal amount of rs 15000odd crore plus and the rest is interest so according to the supreme court order whatever is the amount due has to be recovered and deposited with sebi and then only we can decide on what to do with the money so we are just following the apex court order tyagi had said he had also said the regulator has issued many advertisements asking investors bondholder to come forward and who have made their claims have already been paid according to the sebi annual report it was holding rs 23191 crore of sahara group bondholders money as of march 2021 and the said amount was held in an escrow account the amount in the account included rs 15473 crore recovered and the interest on it the report said last week finance minister nirmala sitharaman told the lok sabha that till november 30 sahara groups real estate arm sahara india real estate corporation and its housing finance arm sahara housing investment corporation and their promoters and directors have deposited rs 1548580 crore against the principal amount of rs 2578137 crore into the designated account