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Landmark JudgmentSupreme Court of India

SBI v. Amit Iron: the 2024 RBI Fraud Master Directions, the written-procedure rule, and the right to the full forensic audit report

The Supreme Court's first major pronouncement on the 2024 RBI Master Directions on Fraud Risk Management. A 2-judge bench held three things: there is no inherent right to a personal or oral hearing before fraud classification because the determination is grounded in objective documentary evidence and a written show-cause-and-reply procedure satisfies natural justice; banks must furnish the full Forensic Audit Report to the borrower as the rule, with only narrow exceptions for genuinely third-party sensitive material; and the doctrinal distinction between fraud — which carries criminality — and wilful default — which does not — justifies the differentiated procedural protections under the two regulatory regimes.

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