List of scandals in India

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The following is a list of proven scandals in India since independence, including political, financial and corporate scandals. The year, or decade, is when the scandal was first reported.

1950s

• 1958 Mundhra scandal^[1][2][3]

1970s

• 1971 Nagarwala case

1980s

• 1985 Fodder scam^[4][5]
• 1987 Bofors scandal

1990s

• 1992 Indian stock market scam^[6]
• 1992 Stamp paper scam
• 1992 Ajmer rape case
• 1996 Disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa^[7][8]
• 1997 Tatra Truck scam
• 1997-2006 Jalgaon housing scam^[9]
• 1998 Anubhav Plantations
• Ice cream parlour sex scandal
• Purulia arms drop case
• Palmolein Oil Import Scam
• Hawala scandal
• SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric scandal^[10][11]

2000s

2000

• India-South Africa match fixing scandal^[1]

2001

• Operation West End
• Ketan Parekh^[10]
• Roshni Act corruption scandal^[12]

2002

• Stamp paper scam^[13][14][15]
• Best Bakery case
• Provident Fund^[16][17]
• Taj corridor case

2003

• Uttar Pradesh food grain scam^[18][19][20]
• JBT teacher recruitment scam^[21][22][23]

2004

• Manesar land scam

2005

• Scorpene deal scam^[24][25][26]

2006

• Ludhiana City Centre scam^[10]
• Navy war room leak case^[27][28][29]
• Fatwas for cash scandal^[30][31]

2008

• Hasan Ali Khan^[32][33][34]
• Indian Army ration scam^[35][36]
• 2G spectrum case^[37][38]
• Cash-for-votes scandal
• Operation Kamala

2009

• Deendayal Upadhyaya Trust land scam^[39]
• Satyam scandal^[40][41]

2010s

2011

• Housing-loan scam
• Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Adarsh Housing Society scam^[42][43]

2011

• Belekeri port scam^[44][45]

2012

• DIAL Scam^[46]
• Granite scam in Tamil Nadu^[47][48]
• Haryana Forestry case^[49][50][51]
• Indian coal allocation scam^[52][53][54]
• Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam^[55][56][57]
• Maharashtra Irrigation Scam^[58]
• Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam^[59][60][61]
• Uttar Pradesh sand mining scandal
• National Herald corruption case
• 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder

2013

• Vyapam scam^[62][63][64]
• NSEL case^[65]
• Railway bribery scam^[66]
• 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case
• 2013 Mumbai gang rape
• 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
• 2013 Kerala solar panel scam
• 2013 Indian helicopter bribery scandal^[67][68]
• Madhya Pradesh Scholarship scam
• Saradha Group financial scandal^[69][70][71]

2014

• Aavin scam^[72][73]
• Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority^[74]
• Gurugram Rajiv Gandhi Trust land grab case

2015

• Murder of Sandeep Kothari
• Lalit Modi case
• 2015 Cash for Vote Scam^[75]
• NSE co-location scam^[76]

2016

• Narada sting operation
• Freedom 251^[77][78]
• Fugitive Economic Offender
• Delta Meghwal rape case

2017

• 2017 Unnao rape case

2018

• Kathua rape case
• Punjab National Bank Scam: A fraudulent letter of undertaking worth ₹11,600 crore (US$1.77 billion) was issued at the Punjab National Bank branch in Brady House, Mumbai, making the bank liable for the amount.^[79] The fraudulent transactions, linked to Nirav Modi, were first noticed by a new employee of the bank.^[80] Two branch employees were involved in the scam, in which the bank's core banking system was bypassed to raise payment notes to overseas branches of other Indian banks (including Allahabad Bank, Axis Bank and Union Bank of India) with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Three jewellers (Gitanjali Group and its subsidiaries, Gili and Nakshatra) are also under investigation. Mehul Choksi is also accused in the scandal.^[81][82][83]

2019

• Karvy Scam^[84]
• INX Media case^[85]
• Hyderabad gang rape and murder case

2020s

2020

• Kerala gold smuggling scandal: On June 30, 2020, The customs officials at the airport detained diplomatic baggage from Dubai which turned out to be a consignment carrying illegal gold. This smuggling is alleged to have connection with top echelons of Kerala Government and is under probe by agencies such as National Investigation Agency, Enforcement Directorate etc.^[86]
• Republic TV TRP manipulation scam: In October 2020, Mumbai Police filed a charge sheet against India Today, News Nation, Republic TV, and multiple Marathi channels on grounds of manipulation of TRP.^[87][88]
• Bengaluru drug raids: In August and September Karnataka Police arrested and quizzed numerous actors and individuals working in Kannada cinema industry in connection with drug abuse and peddling.^[89]
• Hathras Gang Rape On 14 September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, India, by four upper caste men. She died two weeks later in a Delhi hospital.

2021

• 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.^[90][91]
• Delhi liquour scam: A political scandal involving the Delhi Government's Excise Policy for 2021–2022, introduced by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and the subsequent legal investigations, including the arrests of senior AAP politicians in connection with the allegations.

2022

• West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam: On 23 July 2022, Education Minister of West Bengal and Secretary General of All India Trinamool Congress (ruling party of West Bengal State) Partha Chatterjee was arrested from his residence by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the alleged State School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam cases along with his aide actress Arpita Mukherjee. He was admitted to SSKM Hospital after complaining of chest pains.^[92] Later, he was shifted to AIIMS Bhubaneswar where doctors said that he suffers from chronic diseases but does not need immediate hospitalization. He is currently in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate.^[93] As of 28 July 2022, the Enforcement Directorate has recovered ₹49.8 Crores cash, gold worth ₹5.07 Crores, ₹56 lakhs worth foreign currency and coded diaries from properties related to him and Arpita Mukherjee.^[94] On 28 July he was expelled from the cabinet Ministries he was in charge of and suspended from the TMC.^[95][96] On 5 August 2022, he and his aide Arpita Mukherjee were sent to jail custody. On 11 April 2024 it was revealed that 27,000 school teacher are fake which are not appeared in School Service commission in 2016 by Kolkata High Court. College service commission was also accused for seat selling (2015–2023) and Ph.D. (2015–2022) seat selling by Kalyani university's professors.

2023

• Adani Group scandal: In January 2023, Hindenburg Research revealed that it had short positions in India's Adani Group, alleged to be a close ally of Narendra Modi's administration,^[97] and flagged debt and accounting concerns. Concurrently, Hindenburg released a report claiming that Indian conglomerate Adani Group "has engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades."^[98] Soon after the report's release, Adani Group companies experienced an acute decline in their share prices.^{[99][100][101]} In a follow-up piece, The Guardian indicated that Hindenburg called on the Adani Group to sue if they believed the report was inaccurate.^[102][103] By the end of February 2023, the group lost $150 billion in value. Gautam Adani's personal net worth came down as he fell from 3rd richest in the world to 30th richest within a month after the report was published.^{[104][105][106]} The opposition leaders called it the "biggest scam" and Modi has been criticized for his lack of reaction towards the scandal.^{[107][108][109]}

2024

• Mahadev Betting App Case: The Mahadev Betting App Case is a scandal involving an illegal online gambling platform that was used to launder money. The app was run by Dubai-based Saurabh Chandrakar and his accomplice Ravi Uppal, both of whom hail from Chhattisgarh.
• Neet Scam 2024: Refers to uproar caused by sudden declaration of NEET results, and allegations of irregularities and paper leak.
• Lok Sabha Exit Poll-Stock Market Scam 2024: On 1 June 2024, in the evening of the last day of polling in the 2024 Lok Sabha election major media houses broadcast exit polls which predicted landslide majority of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On 3 June 2024 Monday, this led to massive buying in the stock markets specially in the companies friendly to the BJP. However, on June 4, the actual results were completely different than the exit polls prediction. The markets crashed which led to loss of approximate Rs 30 lakh crores to the retail investors. The main opposition party Indian National Congress alleged that fake exit polls were used to create false hype in order to manipulate stock markets.^[110]
• Ayodhya land scam- On June 10, 2024, major media house Indian Express published an investigative article which found that after the 2019 Supreme Court verdict in favour of Ram Temple there was 30 per cent rise in the number of land transactions in at least 25 villages in Ayodhya and adjoining Gonda and Basti districts that fall within a radius of 15 km of the temple. Many of these land deals were linked to politicians, senior officials and their relatives.^[111] The investigation also revealed that the administration did not revise the land circle rates for the past 7 years even after the Supreme Court's verdict although rates have been revised in the adjoining districts.^[112]

See also

• India portal
• Politics portal

• The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013
• Corruption in India
• 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
• Jan Lokpal Bill
• Right to Public Services legislation
• Corruption Perceptions Index
• Licence Raj
• Mafia Raj
• Rent-seeking
• Lok Ayukta
• United Nations Convention Against Corruption

Further reading

• Shourie, A. (2006). Indian Controversies. New Delhi: Rupa & Co.
• In 2020, Real Estate Scam Fighters^[113][114] is formed with a basic mission to debunk various Frauds in the real estate sector and create awareness for the investors.

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