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patanjali ayurved | ruchi soya: Did Patanjali get 60000 hectare Ruchi Soya land overseas for nothing? A Lucknow firm can answer.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev speaks during a press conference on January 24, 2020 in New Delhi, India. He said that Patanjali group, which has acquired debt-ridden Ruchi Soya, is expecting 25,000 crore turnover this fiscal, and aims to become the country’s largest FMCG company in coming years.

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Two foreign subsidiaries of Ruchi Soya had huge leased land holdings — 25,000 hectares in Ethiopia, 17,000 hectares in Madagascar, and 20,000 hectares in Cambodia. However, in March 2020, Ruchi Soya sold the two subsidiaries to a Lucknow-based entity at a throwaway price. A closer look reveals that the buyer has close links with Patanjali, the current promoters of Ruchi Soya.

The cheer and the broad smiles were hard to miss. As a consortium led by Patanjali Ayurved steered Ruchi Soya out of insolvency in December 2019, investors and stakeholders were a relieved lot. The INR4,350 crore deal was one of the success stories of insolvency resolution in India. But what followed could raise many eyebrows.On November 17, 2020, Ruchi Soya in a stock exchange filing announced that the company has disposed of five of its

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