The Reserve Bank of India has asked the country’s first and only Shariat-based NBFC, the Kozhikode-based Alternative Investments and Credit Limited (AICL), to commit sacrilege. The NBFC, for which charging interest is ‘haraam’ or forbidden, has now been asked to publish an interest rate structure just like any other conventional banks.
The charge is that the AICL, which has been operational for over a decade, has flouted RBI’s fair practices code under which a financier has to specify the interest structure. The AICL has been given two weeks to respond to the RBI’s directive……………………………………….Full Article: Source