There was no collusion, criminal conspiracy or abuse of position by officials of ICICI Bank in accepting repayment of a loan at a reduced rate of interest from promoters of NDTV Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, the CBI has concluded in its closure report in the 2017 case. The CBI FIR registered on the basis of a complaint from Sanjay Dutt of Quantum Securities Ltd had alleged that ICICI Bank had sanctioned a loan of Rs 375 crore in 2008 against the entire 61 per cent shareholding of the promoters as collateral. The bank had allegedly accepted the repayment of the loan by reducing the interest rate from 19 per cent per annum to 9.5 per causing a wrongful loss of Rs 48 crore to the bank and corresponding gain to the promoters, it had said. The central investigation agency after nearly seven years of probe came to the conclusion that the reduction of the rate of interest from from 19 per cent to 9.65 per cent as approved on August 5, 2009 was based on various factors -- borrowers' inabili