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Harshad Shantilal Mehta (29 July 1954 – 31 December 2001) was an Indian stockbroker and a convicted fraudster. Mehta's involvement in the 1992 Indian securities scam (about ₹30,000 Crores) made him infamous as a market manipulator.
The scam was the biggest money market scam ever committed in India, amounting to approximately ₹ 5,000 crores. The main perpetrator of the scam was a stock and money market broker Harshad Mehta. It was a systematic stock scam using fake bank receipts and stamp paper that caused the Indian stock market to crash.
Dec 31, 2001 · Harshad Mehta was a stockbroker who masterminded the 1992 stock market scam of over INR 4000 crore rupees in India. He was arrested in 1992 and died of a heart attack in 2001 while in jail.
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story: With Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Hemant Kher, Anjali Barot. The rise and fall of Harshad Mehta, a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to great heights, is depicted.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Learn how Harshad Mehta, a broker, manipulated the Bombay Stock Exchange by using fake bank receipts and stamp papers. Find out how he defrauded the banks of Rs 4,000 crore, how the scam was exposed, and how it changed India's financial regulatory system.
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Jul 7, 2022 · Jyoti Mehta, the widow of the late stock broker Harshad Mehta, accused the taxmen and custodian of harassing her family for three decades. She claimed that her husband died of medical negligence in prison and won more than 1,200 cases against the authorities.
Smt Jyoti Mehta narrates the facts and evidence of more than 30 years of ordeal and injustice faced by her family after the death of her husband Harshad Mehta in 2001. She reveals the meeting of Harshad with the then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in 1991 and the group punishment meted out to them by the authorities.
