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  <title>Citizens' Accountability Ledger</title>
  <subtitle>Sourced cases of scandal, disaster and policy failure in India since 2000, and who held the file.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-07-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>Delhi-Dehradun Expressway. Potholes in ten weeks</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-40/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-40/</id>
    <updated>2026-07-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public safety"/>
    <summary>Jul 2026. About two and a half months after its high-profile opening, a stretch of the new Delhi-Dehradun Expressway near Shamli developed deep potholes after heavy rain, with motorists reportedly suffering tyre damage.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Ram Mandir donation theft. Faith, cash and deleted tape</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-39/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-39/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Fund opacity"/>
    <summary>Jun 2026 onward. An alleged racket saw daily cash offerings at the Ayodhya Ram temple siphoned off by insiders. A state SIT found suspicious pilferage on camera, staff appointed on the recommendation of trust officials, and CCTV footage allegedly deleted despite audit warnings to keep long backups.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>MP Chief Minister's family land, and a buried demand for a probe</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-48/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-48/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Crony capital (alleged)"/>
    <summary>Jun 2026 (allegation). Media reports in June 2026 alleged that firms and family members linked to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav had acquired around 137 land parcels, roughly 168 acres, in and around Ujjain, concentrated in areas expected to rise in value from planned government infrastructure and development.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>The children the exam system killed</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-37/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-37/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Exam integrity"/>
    <summary>2021 to 2026 (crisis peak 2026). After the 2026 NEET leak, cancellation and a stressful forced re-examination, around a dozen students were reported to have died by suicide amid the anguish, part of a documented pattern of exam-linked student deaths over several years.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>The falling rupee. The yardstick they buried</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-38/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-38/</id>
    <updated>2026-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Economic shock"/>
    <summary>2014 to 2026. The rupee slid to a series of record lows through 2026, touching around 96.8 to the US dollar, having stood near 59 when this government took office in 2014.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>NEET 2026. The 'fixed' exam leaks all over again</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-36/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-36/</id>
    <updated>2026-05-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Exam integrity"/>
    <summary>03 May 2026. Two years after the 2024 debacle and a fanfare of reforms, GPS-tracked papers, jammers and a new anti-cheating law, NEET-UG 2026 was cancelled on 12 May after a circulating guess paper was found to overlap heavily with the real exam. The CBI moved in and arrests followed.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>The air. A million dead a year, and a target quietly missed</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-58/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-58/</id>
    <updated>2026-01-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Environment"/>
    <summary>NCAP target year missed, 2026. The National Clean Air Programme set out to cut PM10 by 20 to 30% by 2024-25, then revised the goal to up to 40% by 2025-26. By CREA's January 2026 assessment, only 23 of the 130 cities covered had reached the revised target and most remain above national standards. Delhi was ranked the world's most polluted capital for an eighth consecutive year at 82.2 µg/m³ of PM2.5, more than sixteen times the</summary>
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    <title>Ladakh. A Sixth Schedule promise, then four dead</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-52/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-52/</id>
    <updated>2025-09-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Rights and dissent"/>
    <summary>Promised 2019. Four dead Sept 2025.. Ladakh became a Union Territory without a legislature in August 2019. The ruling party's 2019 manifesto had listed Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh among its regional priorities, and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes recommended it the same year. The Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance have since asked for four things: Sixth Schedule safeguards, statehood, a Ladakh Public Servi</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Vote chori. A claim, an ultimatum, and no audit</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-54/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-54/</id>
    <updated>2025-08-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Democratic institutions"/>
    <summary>07 Aug 2025. On 7 August 2025 the Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, alleged at a press conference that 1,00,250 votes had been stolen in the Mahadevapura segment of Bangalore Central, breaking the figure into duplicate voters, invalid addresses, bulk registrations at single addresses, invalid photographs and misuse of Form 6. The Election Commission called the analysis misleading and false. The Chief Ele</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Pahalgam. 26 dead, a lapse admitted, nobody moved</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-53/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-53/</id>
    <updated>2025-04-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="National security"/>
    <summary>22 Apr 2025. On the afternoon of 22 April 2025, gunmen attacked tourists at Baisaran meadow, a walk-in-only site about five kilometres from Pahalgam. Two attackers who had mingled with the crowd herded people towards two more armed men, who segregated victims by religion before shooting them. Twenty-six people were killed.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>E20 petrol. No fuel choice, no compensation</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-35/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-35/</id>
    <updated>2025-04-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Consumer harm"/>
    <summary>Apr 2025 onward. India completed a nationwide switch to 20 percent ethanol-blended petrol six years ahead of target, making E20 effectively the only fuel at pumps, with no unblended option and no price difference.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>₹16 lakh crore written off. About 16% recovered.</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-46/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-46/</id>
    <updated>2025-03-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public money"/>
    <summary>2014 to 2025 (cumulative). Indian banks wrote off around ₹16.6 lakh crore in bad loans since 2014, according to RBI data given in an RTI reply and in Parliament, of which only about 16 percent has been recovered. The bulk, roughly ₹9 lakh crore, was owed by large industry and services.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Ken-Betwa river link. A tiger reserve for a headline</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-34/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-34/</id>
    <updated>2024-12-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Environment"/>
    <summary>Approved 2021. Launched Dec 2024.. The Ken-Betwa river-linking project, approved in 2021 and launched by the Prime Minister in December 2024, will dam the Ken to send water to the Betwa, submerging around 9,000 hectares, including roughly 5,800 hectares of the core of the Panna Tiger Reserve.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>'Bulldozer justice'. Punishment by demolition</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-43/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-43/</id>
    <updated>2024-11-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Rights and dissent"/>
    <summary>Practice 2022 to 2024. SC ruling Nov 2024.. Several BJP-run states demolished the homes of people merely accused of crimes or of joining protests, staging the bulldozer as instant justice.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Showcase infrastructure that failed on schedule</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-33/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-33/</id>
    <updated>2024-06-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public safety"/>
    <summary>Jan to Jun 2024. A run of prestige projects failed soon after grand inaugurations. New Ayodhya roads caved and the temple sanctum leaked in the first rains, a Delhi airport canopy collapsed and killed a man, and newly built bridges and airport roofs failed across states.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>NEET / NTA 2024. The paper-leak collapse</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-32/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-32/</id>
    <updated>2024-05-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Exam integrity"/>
    <summary>05 May 2024. India's medical entrance exam was hit by a paper leak traced to Bihar and a grace-marks fiasco that produced an impossible cluster of perfect scores, with the CBI arresting a leak network.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Chandigarh mayor poll. Ballots defaced on camera</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-31/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-31/</id>
    <updated>2024-01-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Democratic institutions"/>
    <summary>30 Jan 2024. In the Chandigarh mayoral election the returning officer declared eight votes of the opposition INDIA bloc invalid, handing the seat to the BJP candidate, while a video showed him defacing ballots and glancing at the camera.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Election Commission law. The Chief Justice written out</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-30/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-30/</id>
    <updated>2023-12-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Democratic institutions"/>
    <summary>Dec 2023. A new law fixed the panel that appoints the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners as the Prime Minister, a Union minister and the Leader of the Opposition, removing the Chief Justice of India, whom the Supreme Court had just placed on it.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Silkyara tunnel. 41 men trapped by a rushed project</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-29/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-29/</id>
    <updated>2023-11-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public safety"/>
    <summary>12 Nov 2023. Part of the Silkyara tunnel on the flagship Char Dham highway in Uttarakhand collapsed, trapping 41 workers for 17 days until a dramatic manual rescue freed them.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Ayushman Bharat. Dead patients 'treated', ghost phone numbers</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-49/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-49/</id>
    <updated>2023-08-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public money"/>
    <summary>CAG report tabled Aug 2023. The national auditor's 2023 performance audit of the Ayushman Bharat health-insurance scheme found up to 7.5 lakh beneficiaries registered against a single mobile number (9999999999), thousands registered against the same Aadhaar numbers, ₹6.97 crore paid for the treatment of 3,446 patients already recorded as dead, and tens of thousands of cases of one patient admitted to several hospitals at the</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Balasore train disaster. The resignation that never came</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-28/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-28/</id>
    <updated>2023-06-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public safety"/>
    <summary>02 Jun 2023. A signalling failure caused a three-train collision near Balasore, Odisha, the deadliest Indian rail accident in decades.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>₹2,000 note withdrawn. A quiet admission</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-27/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-27/</id>
    <updated>2023-05-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Economic shock"/>
    <summary>19 May 2023. The RBI announced the withdrawal of the ₹2,000 note, the very denomination introduced during the 2016 demonetisation as its supposed replacement currency.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Manipur. A state on fire, and months of silence</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-26/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-26/</id>
    <updated>2023-05-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public safety"/>
    <summary>03 May 2023 onward. Ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities erupted in May 2023 and ground on for nearly two years, with reports of state complicity and horrific gender-based violence.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>The cylinder. Subsidy withdrawn, refills never came</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-57/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-57/</id>
    <updated>2023-03-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Consumer harm"/>
    <summary>Price peak 01 Mar 2023. A connection is not a kitchen. Ujjwala put a cylinder in more than ten crore homes, but the CAG's 2019 audit found beneficiaries were buying 3.21 refills a year against the three to four the scheme assumed, and that consumption was falling, not rising. Nearly 56 lakh households never bought a second cylinder. In Chhattisgarh the average was 1.61. Meanwhile the general subsidy was wound down until </summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Adani-Hindenburg. And the JPC that was refused</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-41/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-41/</id>
    <updated>2023-01-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Crony capital (alleged)"/>
    <summary>24 Jan 2023. A short-seller's report accused the Adani Group, a conglomerate widely seen as close to the government, of stock manipulation and accounting fraud, triggering a huge sell-off.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Wrestlers' protest. A ruling-party MP shielded</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-42/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-42/</id>
    <updated>2023-01-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Rights and dissent"/>
    <summary>Jan to May 2023. Top wrestlers, including Olympic medallists, sat in at Jantar Mantar accusing the Wrestling Federation chief and six-time BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually harassing female athletes.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Joshimath. A Himalayan town sinking</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-25/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-25/</id>
    <updated>2023-01-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Environment"/>
    <summary>Jan 2023. The pilgrimage town of Joshimath in Uttarakhand began sinking in early 2023, with cracks tearing through hundreds of buildings and residents forced out.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Morbi bridge collapse. 135+ dead, no political head rolled</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-24/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-24/</id>
    <updated>2022-10-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Public safety"/>
    <summary>30 Oct 2022. A colonial-era suspension bridge, reopened after repairs with no fitness certificate and no load test, snapped over the Machchhu river days later and dropped a festival crowd into the water.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bilkis Bano. Gang-rape convicts freed, then sent back</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-23/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-23/</id>
    <updated>2022-08-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Rights and dissent"/>
    <summary>15 Aug 2022. SC quashed Jan 2024. On Independence Day 2022, the Gujarat government granted remission to 11 men serving life for the 2002 gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven of her family, including a three-year-old. The freed men were garlanded.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The ED as a political weapon (alleged)</title>
    <link href="https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-22/"/>
    <id>https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-22/</id>
    <updated>2022-07-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Democratic institutions"/>
    <summary>2022 onward. The Enforcement Directorate's powers under the money-laundering law were widened and, after a 2022 Supreme Court ruling, hardened, with a near-impossible bail bar and sweeping arrest and attachment powers.</summary>
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