The following is a ''list of proven scandals in India'' since

independence Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the stat ...

, including political, financial and corporate scandals. The year, or decade, is when the scandal was first reported.

1940s

* 1947 - INA treasure chest disappearance * 1948 -

Jeep scandal case The Jeep scandal of 1948 was the first major corruption case in the Republic of India. V.K. Krishna Menon, the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, ignored protocols and signed a Rs 80 lakh contract for the purchase of army jeeps with ...

* 1949 - Gems Graft case

1950s

* 1951 Cycle scam * 1956 BHU funds misappropriation () * 1958 Mundhra scandal ()

1960s

* 1960 Teja loan scandal () * 1964 Pratap Singh Kairon inquiry * 1965 Kalinga tubes scandal

1970s

* 1971 Nagarwala case () * 1974 Maruti scandal * 1976 Kuo oil scandal ()

1980s

* 1981 Cement scam () * 1985

Fodder scam The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about from the government treasury of the north Indian state of Bihar.

() * 1987 HDW Submarine scandal * 1987

Bofors scandal The Bofors scandal was a major weapons-contract political scandal that occurred between India and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s, initiated by Indian National Congress politicians and implicating the Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, a ...

* 1989 St Kitts forgery

1990s

1992 Indian stock market scam The 1992 Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Harshad Shantilal Mehta with other bankers and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The scam caused significant disruption to the stock market of India, defrauding in ...

* Babanrao Gholap disproportionate-assets case * 1996 disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa * Cobbler scam * 1998 Ajmer rape case * 1998 Anubhav Plantations scam * Jalgaon housing scam * Sheregar scam * Ice cream parlour sex scandal * 1996 Sukh Ram telecom equipment scandal * C. R. Bhansali scam () * Fertiliser import scam () * Meghalaya forest scam () * Preferential allotment scam () * Yugoslav dinar scam () *

Purulia arms drop case The Purulia arms drop happened on 17 December 1995 when unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The chief accused "Kim Davy" (real name Niels Holck, alias Niels Chris ...

* Sugar-import scam * Palmolein Oil Import Scam (Kerala) *

Indian Bank Indian Bank is an Indian public sector bank, established in 1907 and headquartered in Chennai. It serves over 100 million customers with 39,734 employees, 5,721 branches with 5,428 ATMs and Cash deposit machines. Total business of the bank has ...

scandal () * Airbus scandal *

Hawala scandal The Hawala scandal, also called the Jain Diaries case or the hawala scam, was an Indian political and financial scandal involving payments allegedly sent by politicians (black money) through four hawala brokers, namely the Jain brothers. It was a ...

* SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric scandal () *

Prem Khandu Thungan Prem Khandu Thungon (born 5 June 1946) is an Indian politician and leader of the Indian National Congress. He was a former central minister of state for Urban Development in the Government of India. He was the Chief Minister of Janata Party led ...

graft case

2000s

2000

* India-South Africa match fixing scandal -

Mohammed Azharuddin Mohammad Azharuddin (born 8 February 1963) is an Indian politician and a former international cricketer and former captain of India national cricket team. He is the working president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee and was the mem ...

and Ajay Jadeja were banned from cricket for 5 years and 4 years respectively.

2001

* Operation West End *

Ketan Parekh Ketan Parekh is a former stockbroker from Mumbai, who was convicted in 2008 for involvement in the Indian stock market manipulation scam that occurred from late 1998 to 2001. During this period, Parekh artificially rigged prices of certain chos ...

securities scam () * Calcutta Stock Exchange scam * Roshni Act corruption scandal

2002

* Stamp paper scam () *

Provident Fund Provident fund is another name for pension fund. Its purpose is to provide employees with lump sum payments at the time of exit from their place of employment. This differs from pension funds, which have elements of both lump sum as well as monthly ...

scam * Taj corridor case

2003

* Housing and Urban Development Corporation scam * Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare scholarship scam * Uttar Pradesh food grain scam *

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...

teacher-recruitment scam

2004

* Taj Co-operative Group Housing Scheme scam () * IPO scam *

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

flood-relief scam () *

Oil for Food scandal The Oil-for-Food Programme (OIP), established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) was established to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs fo ...

2005

Bhanu Pratap Sahi Bhanu Pratap Shahi is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly The Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha or the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Jharkhand. List of assemblies ...

disproportionate-assets case,

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . I ...

medical-equipment scam * Scorpene deal scam, part of the Navy war room leak

2006

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi Language, Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also Romanization, romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the I ...

city-centre project scam () *

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...

ayurveda Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population rep ...

scam () * Navy war room leak (6 billion) * Fatwas for cash scandal

2008

Hasan Ali Khan Hasan Ali Khan ( – 23 February 2023) was an Indian businessman. In 2007, Indian authorities began investigating Khan on suspicion of money laundering. He had a Swiss bank account with $8 billion in deposits. He allegedly stashed away billions ...

money-laundering case *

State Bank of Saurashtra The State Bank of Saurashtra was a government-owned bank in India, with its headquarters at Bhavnagar. It was one of the seven Associate Banks of the State Bank of India, with which it merged on 13 August 2008. At the time of the merger, the ...

scam () * Army ration-pilferage scam () * Paazee Forex scam () * Cash at judge's door scam *

2G spectrum case The 2G spectrum case was a political controversy in which politicians and private officials of the United Progressive Alliance coalition government India were involved in selling or allotting 122 2G spectrum licenses on conditions that prov ...

(Not Proved) * Power-theft scandal * Cash-for-votes scandal

2009

* Goa

special economic zone A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include increasing trade balance, employment, increas ...

scam * JVG scam * Rice export scam () *

Orissa Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of S ...

paddy Paddy may refer to: People *Paddy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname *An ethnic slur for an Irishman Birds *Paddy (pigeon), a Second World War carrier pigeon * Snowy sheathbill or paddy, a bird species *Black-faced s ...

scam * Sukhna land scam (

Darjeeling Darjeeling (, , ) is a town and municipality in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the easternmost province of Nep ...

) *

Vasundhara Raje Vasundhara Raje Scindia (born 8 March 1953) is an Indian politician, who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Micro, ...

Deendayal Upadhyaya Trust land scam * Austral Coke scam () *

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

VDSGCU

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, perennial grass (in the genus '' Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalk ...

scam () *

Madhu Koda Madhu Koda (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian politician who had served as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2006 to 2008 (UPA alliance). He was sworn in as the fourth Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 14 September 2006, and remained in offi ...

disproportionate-assets case *

Satyam scandal The Satyam Computer Services scandal was India's largest corporate fraud until 2010. The founder and directors of India-based outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services, falsified the accounts, inflated the share price, and stole large sums ...

2010s

2010

* Housing-loan scam * Indian Space Research Organisation S-band scam, also known as the ISRO-Devas deal () *

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

Emmar scam () *

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reor ...

land scam * Karnataka housing-board scam (₹350 million) *

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

Citurgia land scam * Medical Council of India bribery scandal - Ketan Desai was arrested by CBI on 22 April. *

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al ...

booth Booth may refer to: People * Booth (surname) * Booth (given name) Fictional characters * August Wayne Booth, from the television series ''Once Upon A Time'' *Cliff Booth, a supporting character of the 2019 film ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ...

scam * Odisha illegal-mining scam (₹59,203 crore) *

Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games A number of concerns and controversies surfaced before the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, which received widespread media coverage both in India (the host nation) and the rest of the world. The Commonwealth Games was severely cri ...

* Maharashtra

Adarsh Housing Society scam The Adarsh Housing Society is a 31-story building constructed on prime real estate in Colaba, Mumbai, for the welfare of war widows and personnel of India's Ministry of Defence. Over a period of several years, politicians, bureaucrats and milit ...

Gegong Apang Gegong Apang is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He served as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 18 January 1980 to 19 January 1999 and again from August 2003 to April 2007. Apang is Arunachal Pradesh's longest serving Chief M ...

PDS PD, P.D., or Pd may refer to: Arts and media * ''People's Democracy'' (newspaper), weekly organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) * ''The Plain Dealer'', a Cleveland, Ohio, US newspaper * Post Diaspora, a time frame in the ''Honorverse'' ...

scam ()

2011

* Belekeri port scam, estimated loss to the public

exchequer In the civil service of the United Kingdom, His Majesty’s Exchequer, or just the Exchequer, is the accounting process of central government and the government's '' current account'' (i.e., money held from taxation and other government revenu ...

at ₹35,000 crores (approx US$6 billion) * Tatra scam () * National Technical Research Organisation scam () * Goa mining scam *

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is the administrative body responsible for civic amenities and some infrastructural assets of the Greater Bengaluru metropolitan area. It is the fourth largest Municipal Corporation in India an ...

scam () *

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several pea ...

housing scam *

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...

housing scam * Pune land scam *

pulse scam () *

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Ca ...

investment scam () *

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...

sales tax A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services. Usually laws allow the seller to collect funds for the tax from the consumer at the point of purchase. When a tax on goods or services is paid to a gove ...

fraud () *

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the second-most populous state in India and the second-most populous country subdi ...

education scam () * Maharashtra public distribution system scam *

Teacher Eligibility Test The Teacher Eligibility Test, known as TET, is the minimum qualification required in India for a person to be eligible for an appointment as a teacher for Classes I to VIII. The test is mandatory for teaching jobs in Indian government schools. ...

scam * Uttar Pradesh

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. This a ...

(MGNREGA) scam *

MGNREGA scam *

Indian Air Force The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air force, air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks third amongst the air forces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct ...

land scam *

solar lamp A solar lamp, also known as a solar light or solar lantern, is a lighting system composed of an LED lamp, solar panels, battery, charge controller and there may also be an inverter. The lamp operates on electricity from batteries, charged throug ...

scam () * B. L. Kashyap,

Employees' Provident Fund Organisation The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is one of the two in statutory social security bodies under the Government of India's Ministry of Labour and Employment and is responsible for regulation and management of provident funds in I ...

scam () *

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

education scam * Pune ULC scam

2012

Aadhaar Aadhaar ( hi, आधार, ādhār, lit=base, foundation, bn, আধার) is a 12-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by the citizens of India and resident foreign nationals who have spent over 182 days in twelve ...

scam *

liquor scam *

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

mayor's fund scam *

Bharat Earth Movers BEML Limited, formerly Bharat Earth Movers Limited, is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, railways, transport an ...

housing-society scam *

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

surgical-glove procurement scam * DIAL Scam () * Flying Club fraud – *

Foreign exchange derivative A foreign exchange derivative is a financial derivative whose payoff depends on the foreign exchange rates of two (or more) currencies. These instruments are commonly used for currency speculation and arbitrage or for hedging foreign exchange ri ...

s scam () * Girivan land scam *

Granite scam in Tamil Nadu The granite scam was a corruption scandal that occurred in Tamil Nadu, India. It gained notoriety after former civil servant of Madurai Ubagarampillai Sagayam wrote a letter to the chief secretary of the State Industries Department on 19 May 2 ...

(about ) *

forest scam *

pulse In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the n ...

scam *

Indian coal allocation scam The Coal allocation scam, dubbed in media as Coalgate, is a major political scandal concerning the Indian government's allocation of the nation's coal deposits to public sector enterprise (PSEs) and private companies. In a draft report issued i ...

(Not Proved) *Jalgaon housing scam * Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association scam (about ) *

Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...

PHE scam * Jammu and Kashmir recruitment scam * Jammu and Kashmir exam scandal *

Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam The Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam concerns the alleged misappropriation of in Indian property funds, made public by a report submitted by the Karnataka State Minorities Commission in 2012. In March 2012, Anwar Manippady, the Chairman of the ...

stamp duty Stamp duty is a tax that is levied on single property purchases or documents (including, historically, the majority of legal documents such as cheques, receipts, military commissions, marriage licences and land transactions). A physical reven ...

scam () * Maharashtra land scam *

Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority The Maharashtra Housing Board (MHB) was established in 1948 and had a jurisdiction over the entire State of Maharashtra except for the Vidarbha region. This body undertook construction of residential buildings under various housing schemes for dif ...

repair scam () * Maharashtra Irrigation Scam (about ) * Ministry of External Affairs gift scam * MSTC gold-export scam () * Nayagaon, Punjab land scam * NHAI allegations – The

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

's Institutional Integrity Unit identified fraud and corruption, requesting an investigation. *

NHPC NHPC Limited (erstwhile National Hydroelectric Power Corporation ) is an Indian government hydropower board under the ownership of Ministry of Power, Government of India that was incorporated in the year 1975 with an authorised capital ...

cement scam *

Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the ''Qila Mubarak'' (the 'Fortunate Castle') construct ...

land scam () *

scam () *

Ranchi Ranchi (, ) is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Odisha, western West Bengal and the eastern area o ...

real-estate scam * Service Tax and Central Excise fraud () * Tax refund scam () * Taxpayer identification number scam * Toilet scam * Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam * Ultra Mega Power Projects scam – The central government lost due to undue benefits to

Reliance Power Reliance Power Limited (R-Power), formerly Reliance Energy Generation Limited (REGL) is a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. It was established to develop, construct, operate and maintain power projects in the Indian and internat ...

. * Uttar Pradesh elephant-memorial scam (₹1,400 crore) * Uttar Pradesh horticulture scam () * Uttar Pradesh Labour and Construction Co-operative Federation scam * Uttar Pradesh

palm tree The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm tr ...

plantation scam () * Uttar Pradesh

seed A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiosper ...

scam () *

scam ()

2013

Virbhadra Singh Virbhadra Singh () (23 June 19348 July 2021) was an Indian politician who served 6 terms and 21 years as the 4th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, he was elected 9 times as a Member of Legislat ...

bribery controversy (₹2.4 crore) *

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the second ...

pre-medical test scam * Madhya Pradesh wheat-procurement scam (₹4 crore) * Arvind and Tinoo Joshi disproportionate-assets case (Madhya Pradesh) * Delhi-Gurgaon Toll Plaza scam *

scam * Haryana seed scam (₹5 crore) * Directorate General of Civil Aviation "free ticket" scam * Leave Travel Concession scam * Telangana rape victim names & Mother reaction 2019 *

NSEL case NSEL case relates to a payment default at the National Spot Exchange Limited that occurred in 2013 involving Financial Technologies India Ltd, when a payment default took place after a commodities market regulator, the Forward Markets Commis ...

(₹5,500 crore) * Railway iron ore freight scam (₹17,000 crore) * Uttar Pradesh illegal sand mining *

Vodafone Vodafone Group plc () is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vod ...

tax controversy (₹11,000 crore) * Railway bribery scam - The CBI arrested railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew for allegedly accepting a bribe for a Railway Board member. *

2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case The 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case arose when the Delhi Police arrested three cricketers, Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, on the charges of alleged spot-fixing. The three represented the Rajasthan Royals in ...

2013 Kerala solar panel scam The 2013 Kerala solar panel scam occurred in 2013, when a solar energy company, ''Team Solar'', in Kerala, India, used two women to create political contacts with links including to the Chief Minister's office. The company duped several influen ...

* Odisha land-allotment scam) *

2013 Indian helicopter bribery scandal Also referred to as the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, the Indian helicopter bribery scandal by Congress led UPA Government refers to a multimillion-dollar corruption case in India, wherein money was paid to middlemen and Indian officials ...

Madhya Pradesh Scholarship scam In the year 2013, an investigation into a minor complaint of misappropriation of funds disbursed under the scholarship scheme meant for tribal students, exposed a multi-crore scam spanning across Madhya Pradesh, India. The initial investigation rev ...

Saradha Group financial scandal The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major financial scam and alleged political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective i ...

: Collapse of a

Ponzi scheme A Ponzi scheme (, ) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. Named after Italian businessman Charles Ponzi, the scheme leads victims to believe that profits are comin ...

run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies believed to be running so-called

chit fund A chit fund is a type of rotating savings and credit association system practiced in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan other Asian countries. Chit fund schemes may be organized by financial institutions, or informally among friends, relative ...

s *

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United Kin ...

seats scam -

Rasheed Masood Rasheed Masood (15 August 1947 – 5 October 2020) was an Indian politician who was a 9 time MP, 5 time Lok Sabha and 4 time Rajya Sabha member and was an Indian politician, a member of the Indian National Congress party and a member of the L ...

was sentenced to four years imprisonment and expelled from the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

2014

* Mumbai International Airport scam - FIRs were registered against GVK and

Airports Authority of India The Airports Authority of India, or AAI, is a public sector enterprise under the ownership of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. It is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining, and managing civil aviation infrastruct ...

officials for cheating and forgery. The project was deliberately delayed for three years to funnel ₹5,000 crore to GVK. * Aavin scam - Ten-year adulteration of milk supplied from societies of the Tamil Nadu State Milk Union, estimated at 27 lakh per day. The owner of the truck was arrested in Chennai. *

SmartCity, Kochi SmartCity Kochi is an information technology special economic zone in Kochi, Kerala, India.

scam - Joint venture of the

government of Kerala Government of Kerala is the subnational government of the Indian state of Kerala. The government is led by a chief minister, who selects all the other ministers. The chief minister and their most senior ministers belong to the supreme decisio ...

and

TECOM Investments The Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) is the primary training command of the United States Marine Corps. Commands within TECOM There are two major commands that fall under TECOM – Training Command and Education Command. Tra ...

, a subsidiary of

Dubai Holding Dubai Holding ( ar, دبي القابضة) is Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's personal investment portfolio, which owns 99.67% of the capital. It is a global investment holding company. Mohamed al Gergawi built the portfo ...

*Cash for MLC seat scam -

H. D. Kumaraswamy Haradanahalli Deve Gowda Kumaraswamy, (born 16 December 1959) known among followers as Kumaranna (''Kumar, the elder brother''), is an Indian politician and businessman who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 23 May 2018 to 23 ...

Pratapsingh Rane Pratapsingh Raoji Rane (born 28 January 1939) is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. He has served as the Chief Minister of Goa a record seven times and was also the former Leader Of Opposition in the Goa Legislative Assembly. He has ...

bribery case *

Illegal mining Illegal mining is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission, in particular in absence of land rights, mining licenses, and exploration or mineral transportation permits. Illegal mining can be a subsistence activity, as is the c ...

in the

Aravalli Range The Aravalli Range (also spelled ''Aravali'') is a mountain range in Northern- Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat. ...

(

and

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern ...

) *

Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority or SJDA was established in the year 1980 and has been responsible of Planning & Development of Siliguri - Jalpaiguri Area. It came in existence under the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning & Develo ...

scam,

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...

(₹200 crore) *

Reliance Jio Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, doing business as Jio, is an Indian telecommunications company and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It operates a national LTE network with coverage across all ...

spectrum-auction-rigging scam- *

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

industrial-land mortgage scam (₹52,000 crore) *''

National Herald The ''National Herald'' is an Indian newspaper published by The Associated Journals Ltd and owned by Young India Limited a company by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. It was founded by India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938 as a t ...

'' land scam *

Vyapam scam The Vyapam scam was an entrance examination, admission and recruitment scam. It was functional since the 1990s and was finally unearthed in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in 2013. The scam involved politicians, senior and junior officials ...

- based in

. Though related to Entrance Exams manipulation, this scam has very high number of unnatural deaths associated with it. Incidentally it is also one of the Most viewed article in

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farmer welfare and agriculture development minister Gauri Shankar Chaturbhuj Bisen

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case (₹2,000 crore) *Hari Kumar Jha disproportionate assets case (₹15 crore) *

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(NCP) unaccounted-cash case (₹34 crore) *

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(HUDA) discretionary quota plot scam *

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician who serves as the Minister of Civil Aviation, a position his father also held from 1991 to 1993. He also heads the Ministry of Steel. He is a Member of Parliament i ...

land-grab case * R. C. Kuriel disproportionate assets case (

) * Mayank Jain disproportionate assets case *

Housing Board (RHB) arbitrary lease allotment of property * HPCA illegal land-allotments scandal-

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and

Anurag Thakur Anurag (Devanagari: अनुराग) (pronounced "Anurāg"), sometimes shorted Anu, is a common Indian first name. There are various meanings of Anurag in Sanskrit such as attachment, devotion, passion and eternal love. Notable people named Anu ...

have been charge sheeted in HPCA scam. *

Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tota ...

RailTel Corporation of India RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian Railways, Ministry of Railways, Government of India. It provides broadband and VPN services. RailTel was formed in September 2000 with the objective of creating a na ...

mobile scam *

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an Indian state-owned aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Bangalore, India. Established on 23 December 1940, HAL is one of the oldest and largest aerospace and defence manufacturers in the worl ...

and

Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce (always hyphenated) may refer to: * Rolls-Royce Limited, a British manufacturer of cars and later aero engines, founded in 1906, now defunct Automobiles * Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the current car manufacturing company incorporated in ...

defence scam (₹10,000 crore) *

Air India Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons, after Air India Limited's former owner, the Government of India, completed the ...

Family Fare Scheme scam *

Bokaro Steel Plant Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) is located in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand. It is the fourth integrated public sector steel plant in India built with Soviet help. It was incorporated as a limited company in 1964. It was later merged with the sta ...

recruitment scam * Gujarat arbitrary land-allotments scandal *

Kribhco Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited (KRIBHCO) is a Central government cooperative under the ownership of Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India that manufactures fertilizers, mainly urea. The society was set up by the Government of Ind ...

and

Yara International Yara International ASA is a Norwegian chemical company. It produces, distributes, and sells nitrogen-based mineral fertilizers and related industrial products. Its product line also includes phosphate and potash-based mineral fertilizers, as well ...

fertilizer fraud controversy *

Delhi Jal Board Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is the government agency responsible for supply of potable water to the most of the National Capital Territory region of Delhi, India. Delhi Jal Board was constituted on 6 April 1998 through an Act of the Delhi Legislative As ...

scam (₹10,000 crore) *

"emergency quota" ticket scam * Cremation shed scam-

MP T. M. Selvaganapathy was sentenced to two years and resigned for corruption. *

money laundering Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdicti ...

- A special investigative team was formed to probe

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and his family.

2015

*The

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found that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation's National Urban Livelihood Mission had built only 208 houses for nine

lakh A lakh (; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105). In the Indian 2,2,3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. For e ...

(900,000) homeless people, although the

central government A central government is the government that is a controlling power over a unitary state. Another distinct but sovereign political entity is a federal government, which may have distinct powers at various levels of government, authorized or del ...

had allocated to the mission. *Delhi Jal Board tanker scam (₹400 crore) – Former Delhi chief minister

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was accused of floating costly tenders. The

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's Anti-Corruption Branch filed an FIR against Dikshit and Delhi CM

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. *

Amethi Amethi is a city situated in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a major town of the Amethi district, in the Faizabad division. The Hanumangarhi temple is located in the heart of the town. Amethi was the 72 nd district of Uttar Pradesh w ...

Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust land-grab case - A revenue court ordered the return of land sold to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust by an industrial house to the

Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA), formerly UP State Industrial Development Corporation, is a corporation of Government of Uttar Pradesh, which promotes industries and develops industrial infrastructure in the State. ...

. *Delhi CNG scam (₹100 crore) - Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Lieutenant Governor

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were accused in the scam. *Delhi power scam - The CAG reported that Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group subsidiary BRPL is accused of inflating their rates by almost ₹8,000 crore, and rates in the city should be reduced. *

fisheries scam (₹400 crore) -

ministers Purshottam Solanki and

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were accused of illegally granting fishing contracts for 58 reservoirs. * GIDC plot-allotment bribery case - Goa chief minister

Laxmikant Parsekar Laxmikant Parsekar (born Laxmikant Yashwant Parsekar; 4 July 1956) is an Indian politician who held the office of the Chief Minister of Goa, a state in India from 2014 to 2017. He was the member of the Goa Legislative Assembly from Mandrem c ...

's brother-in-law Dilip Malvankar, a field manager attached to the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), was arrested while allegedly accepting a ₹10,000 bribe to allot a plot in the Tuem Industrial Estate. *

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office of profit An office of profit means a position that brings to the person holding it some financial gain, or advantage, or benefit. It may be an office or place of profit if it carries some remuneration, financial advantage, benefit etc. It is a term used in ...

scam - Health minister

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(brother of chief minister

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) resigned from the cabinet for allegedly holding a 21.6 percent share in Sunshine Overseas, a road construction company which had received government contracts. *

Annabhau Sathe Development Corporation scam (₹141 crore) – MLA Ramesh Kadam was arrested by the

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for siphoning funds from the state-run ASDC. *

liquor-license scandal -

chief minister

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and his secretary, Mohammed Shahid, were seen negotiating with a liquor baron for a ₹100-crore bribe to change the state's policy on the sale of alcohol. *

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land-grab case - The high court of Maharashtra fined Member of Parliament Vijay J. Darda and ex-chief minister of Maharashtra

Ashok Chavan Ashokrao Shankarrao Chavan (born 28 October 1958) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Maharashtra. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state from 8 D ...

₹25,000 each and ordered an enquiry into encroachment by Jawaharlal Darda Education Society, controlled by Vijay and

Rajendra Darda Rajendra Jawaharlal Darda is the Editor-in-Chief of Lokmat Media Group, a well-known author and social worker. He was a three-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Aurangabad, Maharashtra. He was a Cabinet Minister for Educati ...

Integrated Child Development Services Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a government program in India which provides nutritional meals, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their ...

"Chikki" controversy (₹206 crore) -

women and child welfare minister

Pankaja Munde Pankaja Munde (born 26 July 1979), also known by her married name Pankaja Munde-Palwe, is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra and National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Early life Pankaja Munde was born to Gopina ...

did not solicit mandatory e-tenders in awarding contracts to vendors. *Bangalore illegal land de-notification scam B. S. Yeddyurappa, chief minister of Karnataka, was the prime suspect. *

disproportionate-assets case (₹6 crore) - The CBI registered a preliminary enquiry of

chief minister

. * NTC land scam (₹709 crore) - The CBI booked former

Shankersinh Vaghela Shankersinh Laxmansinhji Vaghela (born 21 July 1940) is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat. He was the Leader of Opposition in 13th Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Vagela started his political career with the Jana Sangh, w ...

. *

Lalit Modi Lalit Modi (born 29 November 1963) is an Indian businessman and former cricket administrator. He was the founder, first chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), and ran the tournament for three years until 2010. He also ser ...

corruption case - The former

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(IPL) commissioner used eight credit cards, none of which were in his name. * 2015 Cash for Vote Scam - MLA

Revanth Reddy Anumula Revanth Reddy (born 8 November 1969) is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is the Member of parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha, from the Indian National Congress representing the Malkajgiri constituency. He was a two-time Memb ...

was jailed in

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and 35 ...

. *

Corporate espionage Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security. While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governmen ...

- Officials of

Reliance Industries Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, headquartered in Mumbai. It has diverse businesses including energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, telecommunications, mass media, and textiles. Relian ...

, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group,

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, Cairn India and Jubilant Energy were accused of stealing documents from the Petroleum Ministry. *

flood-relief scam (₹100 crore) - When hundreds of thousands of people in Uttarakhand went hungry during the 2013 floods, state officials partied on flood-relief funds. * NSE co-location scam (about ₹50,000 crore) –

Insider trading Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company. In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider informati ...

on the

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(NSE) from 2010 to 2014 The case came to light in 2015. *

Louis Berger Group Louis Berger (formerly known as Berger Group Holdings) is a full-service engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, program and construction management and economic development firm based in Morristown, New Jersey. Founded in 1953 in H ...

bribery case - Former Goa public-works minister

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and former chief minister of Goa

Digambar Kamat Digambar Kamat (born 8 March 1954) is an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Goa from 2007 to 2012. Manohar Parikar succeeded him after his term as the Chief Minister of Goa. From 2006 to 2019, he was the president of Swimming Fe ...

were the prime suspects. Alemao was arrested, and Kamat applied for anticipatory bail. Louis Berger Group officials were arrested after they admitted the bribe to the Goa minister.

2016

Narada sting operation The Narada sting operation was a sting operation carried out by Mathew Samuel targeting high-ranking officials and politicians of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). It showed several politicians and a high-ranked police officer accepting ...

* Freedom 251 scam - A

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, that was mounted by an entrepreneur named Mohit Goel through a company called Ringing Bells Private Limited. The company promised

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s at 251

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to customers and collected money. They failed to meet the obligation. * Fugitive Economic Offender,

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escaped from India on March 2, 2016, through

Jet Airways Jet Airways (India) Ltd is an Indian airline based in Delhi NCR, with a training and developmental center in Mumbai. Incorporated in April 1992 as a limited liability company, the airline began operations as an air taxi operator in 1993. It b ...

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

flight from

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. *PACL scam

2017

* Noida Ponzi scheme - A special investigation team (SIT) probing an alleged

run by Anubhav Mittal, managing director of Ablaze Info Solution, concentrated their efforts on suspicious transactions by nearly 200 gold and diamond dealers. *

scholarship scam - An investigation of alleged misappropriation of government scholarships intended for

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students found that hundreds of institutes across the state had pocketed several thousand crore rupees since 2010. * On 5 April 2017, the CBI registered six cases against Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery and Forever Precious Jewellery and Diamonds and their chief promoter, Jatin Mehta, for allegedly cheating three government banks of ₹1,530 crore. * A public-interest litigation petition was filed against

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and other mining and energy companies for an investigation of alleged overcharges for Indonesian coal and imported power equipment from 2011 to 2015.

2018

*Rotomac bank fraud: According to an 18 February 2010

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first information report __NOTOC__ A first information report (FIR) is a document prepared by police organisations in Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asian countries including Myanmar, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan when they receive information about the commissio ...

, Rotomac allegedly defaulted on loans worth

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(). The FIR said that Rotomac diverted the loans to a fictitious company, which routed the money back to Rotomac. * Punjab National Bank Scam: A fraudulent letter of undertaking worth (1.77 billion) was issued at the Punjab National Bank branch in Brady House,

, making the bank liable for the amount. The fraudulent transactions, linked to

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, were first noticed by a new employee of the bank. Two branch employees were involved in the scam, in which the bank's

core banking Core banking is a banking service provided by a group of networked bank branches where customers may access their bank account and perform basic transactions from any of the member branch offices. Core banking is often associated with retail ba ...

system was bypassed to raise payment notes to overseas branches of other Indian banks (including

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and Union Bank of India) with the

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. Three jewellers ( Gitanjali Group and its subsidiaries, Gili and Nakshatra) are also under investigation.

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is also accused in the scandal.

2019

*Karvy Scam * PMC Bank scam * DHFL scam and

UPPCL Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is the company responsible for electricity transmission and distribution within the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The incumbent chairman is Shri M. Devraj. Restructuring For efficient opera ...

employee provident fund (EPF) scandal * INX Media case against former Union Minister P. Chidambaram * IMA ponzi scheme * D. K. Shivakumar money-laundering case *

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scam *IL&FS scam and fraud *Misuse of Clients' Funds by Amrapali Aadya Trading and Investments Private Limited and 8 others * Kanva Scandal

2020s

2020

* Kerala gold smuggling scandal: On June 30, 2020, The customs officials at the airport detained diplomatic baggage from

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which turned out to be a

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carrying illegal gold. This smuggling is alleged to have connection with top echelons of

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and is under probe by agencies such as

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etc. * Fake TRP Scam - In October 2020,

Mumbai Police The Mumbai Police ( Marathi: मुंबई पोलीस, IAST: ''Mumbaī Pulīs'', formerly ''Bombay Police'') is the police department of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of Maharashtra Police and has the primary responsibilit ...

filed a charge sheet against

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, News Nation, Republic TV, and multiple Marathi channels on grounds of manipulation of TRP. * Roshni Land Scam - The Rs. 25,000 crore scam was earlier highlighted in CAG audit of 2013. In November 2020, CBI registered cases of land grab by wealthy and people in position of power by misusing provisions of acts that give government land to landless people in

.
Guru Raghavendra Bank scam
Co-operative bank in Bangalore scammed innocent citizens. *

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drug scandal: In the month of August and September

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arrested and quizzed numerous actors and individuals working in

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industry in connection with drug abuse and peddling. * PM Kisan Nidhi scam in Tamil Nadu, where Rs. 110 crore was siphoned off to ineligible beneficiaries. * Belli Belaku Scam: Around 2000 innocent victims were scammed in Bangalore by abusin
Karnataka Souharda Sahakari Act

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entrusted investigation to SIT, CID and its prosecution to

. While a Competent Authority was constituted under the provisos o
Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments Act
Prima facie reports indicates that the scam involves overall emblazonment of arround 20 crores from collective public funds. Many Belli Belaku Scam perpetrators are also co-accused i
Guru Raghavendra Bank scam
implying criminal nexus among crimes.

2021

* Vazegate Scandal: In March 2021, following the Mukesh Ambani bomb scare case the NIA after taking over the Mumbai Police investigation, noted that a police officer,

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and Mumbai Police Commissioner

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had played a role in the whole case of planning the bombs.

who was later transferred wrote a letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister

Uddhav Thackeray Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (Marathi pronunciation: d̪ʱːəʋ ʈʰaːkɾeː born 27 July 1960) is an Indian politician who served as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2022. He was also the president of Shiv Sena prior to ...

that the Home Minister of state

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had asked him to collect Rs 110 crore every month. Many substantial pieces of evidence followed this letter. * 2021 Recruitment scam: On complaint from Brigadier (Vigilance) V K Purohit, alleging that on February 28, 2021, input was received about the alleged involvement of serving personnel in accepting bribes for clearance of review medical exam of temporarily rejected officer candidates at the Base Hospital in New Delhi

registered the FIR. After which the agency carried out searches at 30 locations across the country. The CBI has booked 17 Army officers including five officers of Lt Col rank, and six private persons in connection with alleged irregularities in recruitment for the armed forces. Lt Col MVSNA Bhagwan is alleged to be the mastermind of the recruitment racket, sources said. Several lower-ranking Army officials and relatives of the accused officers have also been booked. * Pegasus Snooping Scandal: An international investigative journalism initiative by the name of Pegasus Project that alleged that the Pegasus spyware was used on several individuals including ministers, opposition leaders, political strategists, judges, journalists, administrators and activists.

2022

* Charity Scandal: On 10 February 2022, the

attached assets of worth 1.77 crore from journalist

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under the money laundering act. An ED official said that the donation she collected for three funds, during the

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were not used for the right purposes. Most of the donation was declared as taxable personal income and used for personal expenses. Income tax was paid on the donation.
Siri Vaibhava Scam
On 18 June 2022
Karnataka State Souharda Federal Cooperative
has filed a criminal complaint with Karnataka State police against board members of Srivaibhava Souharda Pattina Sahakari Niyamitha for allegedly cheating investors. Prima facie reports indicates that the scam involves overall emblazonment of arround 350 crores from collective public funds. Many Siri Vaibhava Scam perpetrators are also co-accused i
Guru Raghavendra Bank scam
implying criminal nexus among crimes. * School Service Commission Job Scandal West Bengal: On 23 July 2022,

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was arrested from his residence by the

in connection with the alleged State School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam cases along with his aide actress Arpita Mukherjee. He was admitted to

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after complaining of chest pains. Later, he was shifted to

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where doctors said that he suffers from chronic diseases but does not need immediate hospitalization. He is currently in the custody of the

. As of 28 July 2022, the

has recovered ₹49.8 Crores cash, gold worth ₹5.07 Crores, ₹56 lakhs worth

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and coded diaries from properties related to him and Arpita Mukherjee. On 28 July he was expelled from the cabinet Ministries he was in charge of and suspended from the TMC. On 5 August 2022, he and his aide Arpita Mukherjee were sent to jail custody. :There is a lady named Annwesha Mukherjee who claimed herself to be a close aide of the

cheated many innocent people by promising them jobs in

, SSC and other government jobs. She had also cheated many people across India on various pretext and was involved in various Scams. She was arrested but now in bail custody.

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