Kitcha Veerbhadra Rao was released because prosecutors missed a filing deadline. The victims he allegedly took from were still waiting for their money when Andhra police put him back in a cell.
India's markets regulator says a listed textile company with almost no textile sales somehow climbed 842 percent in a year. The looms were empty. The order book was in the trading terminal.
India's market regulator says a small listed company turned itself into a closed loop: the boss funded the buyers who funded the boss. A retail investor watching the ticker never saw the door behind the door.
A ₹143.79 crore ($17M USD) stock manipulation ring in India ran on text messages that looked like they came from Zerodha and ICICI. SEBI's 394-page final order names Hanif Shekh at the center and penalizes 225 others around him.
India's market regulator keeps pulling the same machine out of the same river, under different company names. This week it was another one. The buyers at the top of the chart were never supposed to make it out.
On April 22 and 23, 2026, India's market regulator walked into the offices and homes of promoter-directors at two small company stocks and started opening drawers. The companies looked like success stories. The filings told a different story about who the success was for.