There are already existing government-specified norms, quality parameters and regulatory requirements that companies have to meet to get their products certified fit to be marketed. So why is this parallel system of 'certifying' them for one particular community is even continuing?
The senior IA officer had been accused of taking a bribe if Rs 1.5 crores from the promotors of IMA. He was the former DC of Bengaluru and was accused of submitting a report favouring the IMA to the state government when an inquiry was launched into the alleged money laundering in the name of 'halal' investments.
Halal, as a word, owes its origin to the means to slaughter an animal. Different tribes or religions must be having their own ways to slaughter for the reasons best known to them and many of them are even continuing now
Moreover, as the ED, which is probing the case simultaneously, tightened its noose on the IMA Ponzi scheme, Congress' involvement in the scam started surfacing