The Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Authority has ordered The Peerless General Finance and Investment Company to transfer deposits worth about Rs 1,514 crore to the IEPF.
Money deposited by 1 Crore individual investors was pending with The Peerless General Finance and Investment Company Limited for the last 15 years.
IEPF was set up under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as a statutory body under Companies Act 2013.