Rs. 1.73 lakh crore of public sector bank money stuck in top 100 non- performing accounts as of Dec 2015 There were 7,686 wilful defaulters owing ? 66,190 crore to stateowned banks as of December 2015, Jayant Sinha, minister of state for finance, told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Sinha also said that the total outstanding amount in top 100 nonperforming accounts ( NPAs) with public sector banks ( PSBs) was Rs. 1.73 lakh crore as of December 2015. Sinha said the number of wilful defaulters of PSBs rose from 5,554 to 7,686 in three years to December 2015 while the amount involved more than doubled to Rs. 66,190 crore from Rs. 27,749 crore. “ The total exposure of top 50 defaulters of PSBs as of December 2015 was Rs.1,21,832 crore,” he said in a written reply in the Upper House. In another reply, Sinha said there were 1,365 borrower accounts having outstanding of Rs. 500 crore and more at the end of December 2015. He said government has taken specific measures to address issues in sector