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The Central Bureau of Investigation is India's central investigating agency for corruption, bank fraud and major economic offences. Its cases are accusations to be tested at trial.
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The CBI has registered a case over an alleged Rs 2,684 crore loss to LIC linked to its investment in Reliance Capital's debentures, naming the company and its former chairman among the accused.
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The CBI has registered an FIR against Reliance Capital and its former chairman on an LIC complaint alleging a wrongful loss of about Rs 2,685 crore on debentures subscribed between 2012 and 2018.
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The Supreme Court declined to disturb a Delhi High Court ruling that former NSE chief Chitra Ramkrishna is a public servant, letting the CBI co-location case proceed to trial.
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The CBI has arrested an Airtel area distributor in Vaishali, Bihar, over SIM cards it says were issued fraudulently for a SIM Box operation linked to at least 73 cybercrime cases.
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Six different machines act on builder fraud in India, and they do different jobs: RERA refunds, consumer compensation, police prosecution, CBI conspiracy cases, ED attachment, and insolvency completion. Most stuck buyers use the wrong one first. Here is the map, drawn from the cases on record.
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Delhi NCR is where India's builder-fraud story has played out at its largest scale. In 2025 the Supreme Court, citing a nexus between builders and financiers, sent in the CBI. 22 FIRs followed. Here is the record as it stands, and the routes open to a buyer whose money is stuck.
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The CBI searched ten sites in Punjab and Delhi and arrested four people over a Mohali call centre it says posed as Microsoft and US agencies to extort American victims.
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The CBI says it searched ten locations in Punjab and Delhi and arrested four people over a tech-support fraud and extortion racket that targeted US nationals. The allegations are untested.
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The CBI has registered a cyber-fraud case and arrested five of six accused over an illegal Igatpuri call centre that allegedly impersonated Amazon support to cheat US and Canadian citizens.
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The CBI has returned Vishakha Rathod from the UAE to face a Pune investment case in which APS Wealth Ventures allegedly collected about Rs 88 crore from public investors.
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The CBI has filed its first chargesheet in the Reliance Home Finance matter, alleging a Rs 3,526.35 crore loss to ten banks, alongside SEBI's 2024 fund-diversion order.
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The Andhra Pradesh High Court on 6 March 2025 granted bail to a NAAC member accused in the CBI case alleging bribery for an inflated A++ accreditation grade at KLEF, Guntur.
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The CBI registered an FIR on 30 June 2025 alleging bribery for favourable NMC medical-college inspections; a Telangana High Court order records the case, and the ED has since opened a linked probe.
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The Delhi High Court on 8 October 2024 declined to quash the CBI chargesheet against an EPFO officer in the Kandivali provident-fund case, holding there was enough material to proceed to trial.
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The Delhi High Court quashed look-out circulars against the IFFCO and Indian Potash chiefs on 13 January 2026; the CBI probe into alleged fertiliser-subsidy inflation continues.
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In a live suo motu proceeding, the Supreme Court has directed the CBI to lead digital arrest scam investigations and allowed authorities to freeze linked accounts, per interim orders dated 1 December 2025.
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The CBI says it arrested a Mumbai man it calls the alleged head of a network that trafficked Indians into Myanmar and Cambodia cyber-scam compounds, where victims were forced to run online frauds.
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The CBI says it searched 35 locations across ten states, arrested one key operative in New Delhi and seized about Rs 60 lakh in Operation CYSTRIKE, a multinational cyber-crime investigation.
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The CBI has registered a case against 37 accused and arrested 13 across seven states in Operation Chakra-V, alleging a mule-account network used by cyber-fraud syndicates; the probe continues.
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Per the CBI, it secured the deportation of Udit Khullar from the UAE on 1 August 2025 in a case alleging Rs 4.55 crore in home loans obtained on forged property documents.
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The CBI said on 24 July 2026 it secured Avinash Arjun Rathod's deportation from the UAE; the Bombay High Court records a complaint that APS Wealth Ventures induced investors with promised returns.
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The CBI said on 26 February 2026 it had returned Interpol Red Notice subject Anil Kumar Reddy Yeddula from the UAE to the Andhra Pradesh Police, who allege cheating and breach of trust.
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Seven years after the CBI first filed, the Enforcement Directorate's 2019 plea to declare Jatin Mehta a fugitive economic offender is still pending in a Mumbai court; he is not convicted.
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US authorities arrested Nehal Modi on 4 July 2025 on a joint ED-CBI extradition request, which alleges he helped launder proceeds of the PNB case; no Indian trial has begun.
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On Supreme Court direction, the CBI registered 22 cases and searched 47 locations across Delhi-NCR on 30 July 2025, examining alleged fraud on homebuyers in subvention housing schemes.
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The CBI has registered an FIR naming Reliance Capital and its former chairman Anil Ambani over an alleged Rs 1,816.22 crore loss to the EPFO on debentures the retirement body bought in 2013-14.
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The CBI's Operation Chakra-V has run a sequence of nationwide searches and arrests since April 2025 against digital-arrest cyber-fraud and mule-account networks. The investigations are continuing.
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After the Kerala government granted sanction, the CBI has pressed Prevention of Corruption Act charges against two former KSCDC officials over raw-cashew import tenders.
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The CBI has registered a case on a UCO Bank complaint alleging about Rs 991 crore of diversion by SREI's two firms and directors Hemant and Sunil Kanoria. No charge is framed and the probe continues.
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SBI has classified Reliance Communications' loan account as fraud and the CBI has registered an FIR naming the company and Anil Ambani. No charge has been framed and the probe continues.
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The CBI has chargesheeted 20 institutions and 105 individuals in the Himachal Pradesh post-matric scholarship case, where the ED alleges funds meant for SC, ST and OBC students were diverted.
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The Madras High Court set aside the 2018 discharge of Dayanidhi and Kalanithi Maran and others; the Special CBI Court framed charges and the trial is ongoing, with no verdict yet.
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The CBI has chargesheeted officials of the MHA's FCRA division and middlemen, alleging that FCRA registration and renewal clearances were expedited for 'speed money' bribes; the trial is pending.
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The CBI has filed a chargesheet against Oxfam India and its former CEO before a Delhi special court, alleging breaches of the FCRA cap on administrative spending; the trial has not begun.
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The Allahabad High Court granted bail to a former UPPCL Managing Director in a CBI case alleging Rs 2,267.90 crore of employees' provident-fund savings was diverted into DHFL fixed deposits; trial pending.
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The Delhi High Court has directed the EPFO to release Rs 86 lakh in provident-fund dues to a member the court treated as a victim of a forged withdrawal claim, while a CBI chargesheet awaits trial.
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The Delhi High Court has refused to quash the CBI chargesheet against three EPFO officials accused of settling 91 bogus provident-fund claims worth Rs 2.71 crore; trial is pending.
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The CBI has filed a series of chargesheets in 'digital arrest' cyber fraud cases under Operation Chakra-V, alleging senior citizens were coerced into transfers, including one of about Rs 23 crore.
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The CBI has filed a chargesheet against 17 accused, including four foreign nationals, and 58 companies, alleging a transnational network routed more than Rs 1,000 crore through mule accounts.
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A court in Antwerp cleared Mehul Choksi's extradition to India on 17 October 2025 in the Rs 13,000 crore PNB case, and Belgium's Court of Cassation rejected his appeal; he remains untried in India.
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The England and Wales High Court refused to reopen Nirav Modi's extradition appeal on 26 March 2026 in the PNB letters-of-undertaking case; he remains in UK custody, untried in India.
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A CBI Special Court in Haryana discharged the M3M, IREO and Vatika promoters and a former judge on 21 April 2026, finding insufficient evidence to frame charges in the 2023 corruption case.
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The Delhi High Court has dismissed the former NSE chief's challenge to the CBI prosecution in the exchange's co-location and governance case, letting the trial proceed; SAT had earlier set aside part of SEBI's findings.
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The CBI has chargesheeted 30 accused, including two Chinese nationals and Shigoo Technology, over the HPZ Token app that allegedly took over Rs 1,000 crore promising crypto-mining returns.
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The CBI, ED and SEBI have charged and penalised DHFL's former promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan over an alleged Rs 34,615 crore consortium bank case; none has been convicted.
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The CBI and ED allege a bank-guarantee scheme at Winsome Diamonds left Indian banks facing losses put at about Rs 7,000 crore, with promoter Jatin Mehta abroad and proceedings still pending.
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The CBI filed three chargesheets on 2 June 2026 naming former minister B Nagendra in the Karnataka Valmiki corporation case; it alleges about Rs 89.63 crore was diverted. No one has been convicted.
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A Delhi court framed charges against Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi in the CBI land-for-jobs case on 16 February 2026; both pleaded not guilty, and 52 of the 103 accused were discharged.
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A Delhi special court discharged all 23 accused, including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, in the excise policy CBI case on 27 February 2026; the CBI's revision is now pending before the High Court.
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A Rouse Avenue special court accepted the CBI's closure report and closed the 2018 Delhi PWD consultants case against Satyendar Jain on 4 August 2025; two separate cases against him remain pending.
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The Enforcement Directorate provisionally attached about Rs 910 crore of Future Gaming and Hotel Services' assets, alleging inflated lottery prize claims deprived Sikkim of revenue.
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A Kolkata special court declared Pushpesh Kumar Baid a fugitive economic offender and ordered confiscation of about Rs 24 crore; the ED alleges loans of about Rs 183 crore from five banks.
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A special CBI court in Chennai declared two former Zylog Systems promoters fugitive economic offenders and the ED confiscated their assets; the CBI cases over defaulted bank loans remain on trial.
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A Special CBI Court in Bengaluru convicted an EPFO assistant on 19 June 2026 under the Prevention of Corruption Act for taking UPI bribes to settle PF claims, and jailed him for three years.
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A Special Judge in Delhi convicted seven accused on 6 June 2026 over 175 bogus EPFO pension claims worth Rs 87.17 lakh; three co-accused died during the 22-year-old trial.
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A Special Court for TNPID Act cases in Coimbatore convicted two Paazee Forex Trading directors on 28 August 2022, sentencing each to 27 years and imposing a Rs 171.74 crore fine.
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A Special CBI Court in Hyderabad convicted former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and three others in the OMC iron-ore mining case and sentenced them to seven years' imprisonment.
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The CBI has filed a supplementary chargesheet naming Rajesh Bothra in its Rotomac Exim case, over an Allahabad Bank letter of credit the agency alleges was propped up by forged shipping papers.
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The CBI searched 15 premises in Delhi and Mumbai in the Reliance ADA Group bank-loan cases, alongside SEBI's 2024 order that found a scheme to divert Reliance Home Finance funds.
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The CBI has filed a second chargesheet naming Netizen Engineering and two directors in the Reliance Communications loan-diversion case, part of a Rs 19,694 crore bank-exposure investigation.
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