new delhi taking a serious view that a journalist was being stalked for probing into an alleged corporate fraud involving automotive component manufacturer amtek auto ltd and its promoters and directors the supreme court on wednesday asked attorney general r venkataramani to ensure his safety by talking to the governmentappearing before a bench of chief justice uu lalit justices ajay rastogi and s ravindra bhat advocate jai anant dehadrai placed before the bench affidavit of the journalist in a sealed envelope containing details of how he was being followed and stalked by unknown persons because of his work the bench asked the attorney general to talk to the government for his safety the court also said that the name of the scribe should be kept confidentialdehadrai further submitted that he was also approached after the last hearing in which the sc agreed to hear the case and issued notices to the centre cbi and ed on his plea for an independent probe into siphoning of rs 12000 crore of bank loans by the company the petitioner alleged that there was a probability that the promoters of the country might fly out of the country and sought the courts intervention the petitioner also attached a confidential forensic audit of the company which was done by audit firm ernst young dehadri on the last hearing contended that evidence points to siphoning of over rs 12000 crore through 127 related parties as disbursed by 27 banks which continued granting loan to aal despite it defaulting in 2015 on corporate bond payment of rs 800 crore on debt of rs 8000 crore he said the company was in the rbi list of 12 top defaulters who owed in excess of rs 5000 crore each to banksthe petitioner advocate jaskaran singh chawla said in his plea that he is constrained to invoke the jurisdiction of the apex court on account of glaring inaction by the investigative agencies