A Bollywood-style heist with a Reliance connection

A SEBI crackdown has revealed that Bharat Global Developers Ltd used every trick in the book to drive up its share price so its preferential stockholders could make a killing. What remains unexplained though is the little-known firm’s dealings with Reliance.

19 January, 20259 min
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