<h1>Misuse of public funds alleged as LIC forced into corporate investments; call for parliamentary probe into investment coercion.</h1> The article alleges that officials in the Ministry of Finance and NITI Aayog pushed LIC to invest policyholders' funds in a private conglomerate to signal confidence and attract investors, describing LIC as having been forced into those investments and its savings systematically misused; it urges the Public Accounts Committee to investigate how these investment decisions were made and reiterates a demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine broader alleged misuse of state mechanisms.