Special 26, also known as Special Chabbis, is a 2013 Indian period heist crime thriller film directed by Neeraj Pandey, the film is inspired by which 1987 titled event, a group posing as CBI officers executed the fake income tax investigation raid on the Opera House branch of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri & Sons Jewellers in Mumbai, India?
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Special 26 Special 26, also known as Special Chabbis, is a 2013 Indian period heist crime thriller film directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Akshay Kumar in the lead protagonist role with Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Kajal Aggarwal, Jimmy Shergill and Divya Dutta in supporting roles. The film is inspired by the 1987 Opera House heist where a group posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers executed an income tax raid on the jeweler in Mumbai. "Special 26" released on February 5, 2013 to widespread critical acclaim and was regarded as one of the best films of 2013.
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1987 Opera House heist On 19 March 1987, a group posing as CBI officers executed the fake income tax investigation raid on the Opera House branch of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri & Sons Jewellers in Mumbai, India. This case has remained unsolved.
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Gaurav Chakrabarty Gaurav Chakrabarty is an Indian Bengali film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Prodipto Lahiri in the Bengali musical TV series "Gaaner Oparey" that aired on Star Jalsha from 28 June 2010 to 16 April 2011, and specially for the Bengali classic periodic thriller TV series "Byomkesh" (2014-2015), where he played the role of iconic Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi. He hails from a family which has had a legacy of association with the Bengali cultural arena, starting from Jochhon Dastidar and Chandra Dastidar (his paternal great uncle and aunt), Bijon Bhattacharya (his paternal great uncle), Jagadish and Monika Chakrabarty (his paternal grandparents), and his parents Sabyasachi Chakrabarty and Mithu Chakrabarty. He debuted on the big screen in Kaushik Ganguly's "Rang Milanti", one of the most appreciated films of the year 2011.
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Leakgate (India) Leakgate (also Filegate) was a 2015 scandal in India involving the theft and sale of official documents. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, officials, including those with the Department of Economic Affairs and the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management allegedly stole documents related to foreign investments and sold them to a firm based in Mumbai, who passed the documents on to a number of private companies, including DLF Limitless Developers, HDFC Bank, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Infraline Energy Modril India, Prime Living, NovaLead Pharma, IndusInd Bank and Kakardi British Realty.
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1988 Hyderabad massacre 1988 Hyderabad massacre, also known as "Black Friday" is the massacre of 162 people in Hyderabad, Sindh in Pakistan in 1988. On the evening of 30 September 1988, about a dozen gunmen on motorbikes or cars fired indiscriminately on crowds killing about 162 and injuring 200 persons. No group claimed responsibility. The Muhajir Qaumi Movement said in a statement that their offices and the house of Hyderabad's mayor Aftab Ahmed Sheikh were targeted by the gunmen, while the Awami National Party provincial president, a Sindhi, said the attackers had struck at both Muhajir and Sindhi communities.
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Social Trade Ponzi scam The Social trade Ponzi scam (a.k.a. Noida Ponzi scam and Social Trade scam) was a ponzi scheme in India run by Anubhav Mittal, along with his company’s CEO Sridhar and technical head Mahesh that operated between 2015 and 2017. They duped Rs 3700 Crore from nearly 700,000 people through an online portal ‘socialtrade.biz’.
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Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 is law enacted by Government of Rajasthan in 1987. It became an Act of the Parliament of India with the enactment of The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 in 1988. The Act seeks to prevent Sati practice or the voluntary or forced burning or burying alive of widows, and to prohibit glorification of this action through the observance of any ceremony, the participation in any procession, the creation of a financial trust, the construction of a temple, or any actions to commemorate or honor the memory of a widow who committed sati.
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2G spectrum scam The 2G spectrum scandal was an Indian telecommunications scam and political scandal in which politicians and government officials under the Indian National Congress (Congress) coalition government undercharged mobile telephone companies for frequency allocation licenses, which they used to create 2G spectrum subscriptions for cell phones. The Government chose NM Rothschild & Sons to design a first-of-its-kind e-auction mechanism in the world, a US$2.27 billion landmark deal. The difference between the money collected and that mandated to be collected was estimated by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India at () , based on 2010 3G and BWA spectrum-auction prices. In a chargesheet filed on 2 April 2011 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the loss was pegged at million () . In a 19 August 2011 reply to the CBI, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said that the government had gained over () by selling 2G spectrum.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi Ottavio Quattrocchi (1938 – 13 July 2013) was an Italian businessman who was being sought until early 2009 in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal. Quattrocchi's role in this scandal, and his proximity to Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi through his Italian wife Sonia Gandhi (Antonia Maino), is thought to have contributed to the defeat of the Congress Party in the 1989 elections. In 1999, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) named Quattrocchi in a chargesheet as the conduit for the Bofors bribe. The case against him was strengthened in June 2003, when Interpol revealed two bank accounts, 5A5151516M and 5A5151516L, held by Quattrocchi and his wife Maria with the BSI AG bank, London, containing Euros 3 million and $1 million, a "curiously large savings for a salaried executive". In January 2006, these frozen bank accounts were unexpectedly released by India's law ministry, apparently without the consent of the CBI which had asked for them to be frozen.
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State Bank of India State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services company. It is a government-owned corporation with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. On 1st April, 2017, State Bank of India, which is India's largest Bank merged with five of its Associate Banks (State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Travancore) and Bharatiya Mahila Bank with itself. This is the first ever large scale consolidation in the Indian Banking Industry. With the merger, State Bank of India will enter the league of top 50 global banks with a balance sheet size of ₹33 trillion, 278,000 employees, 420 million customers, and more than 24,000 branches and 59,000 ATMs. SBI's market share will increase to 22 percent from 17 per cent. It has 198 offices in 37 countries; 301 correspondents in 72 countries. The company is ranked 232nd on the "Fortune Global 500" list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2016.
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Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case The Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case (also known as the Ranga-Billa case) was a kidnapping and murder crime in New Delhi in 1978. It involved the kidnapping and the subsequent murder of siblings, Geeta and Sanjay, by Kuljeet Singh (alias Ranga Khus) and Jasbir Singh (alias Billa). The children were kidnapped for ransom but, on learning their father was a naval officer, both were killed. Geeta was allegedly raped before being murdered, but forensic evidence could not confirm it. The kidnappers had initially admitted to raping her but later retracted the statement. The two kidnappers were convicted and sentenced to death. The execution was carried out in 1982.
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Nariman House The Nariman House (Marathi: नरीमन हाउस ), renamed as Chabad House (Hebrew: בית חב"ד‎ ‎ "Beit Chabad "), is a five-story landmark in the Colaba area of South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The building was home to a Chabad house, a Jewish outreach centre run by Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, who owned the building since around 2006. The centre had an educational center, a synagogue, offered drug prevention services, and a hostel. The building was attacked and six of its occupants, including Holtzberg and his wife, who was five months pregnant, were killed during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Their two-year-old son Moshe survived the attack after being rescued by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel.
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Christmas Day Plot The first Christmas Day plot was a conspiracy made by the Indian revolutionary movement in 1909: during the year-ending holidays, the Governor of Bengal organised at his residence a ball in the presence of the Viceroy, the Commander-in-Chief and all the high-ranking officers and officials of the Capital (Calcutta). The 10th Jat Regiment was in charge of the security. Indoctrinated by Jatindranath Mukherjee, its soldiers decided to blow up the ballroom and take advantage of destroying the colonial Government. In keeping with his predecessor Otto (William Oskarovich) von Klemm, a friend of Lokamanya Tilak, on 6 February 1910, M. Arsenyev, the Russian Consul-General, wrote to St Petersburg that it had been intended to "arouse in the country a general perturbation of minds and, thereby, afford the revolutionaries an opportunity to take the power in their hands." According to R. C. Majumdar, "The police had suspected nothing and it is hard to say what the outcome would have been had the soldiers not been betrayed by one of their comrades who informed the authoritiesabout the impending coup.".
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Dawood Ibrahim Dawood Ibrahim (born Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar 27 December 1955) also known as Dawood Bhai or simply Bhai (English: "Brother", "Big brother" or "Boss" ) is a crime lord and a designated terrorist originally from Dongri in Mumbai, India.
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Trishna (yacht) Trishna is a Swan 37 yacht belonging to the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The 1970-vintage boat, earlier known as "Guinevere of Sussex", was purchased in 1984 from the United Kingdom. The yacht has since been used for long distance ocean sailing and training. The first of the yachts' journeys after it was acquired was its voyage from Gosport to Mumbai, India. Subsequently the yacht embarked on its most notable voyage, the circumnavigation of the globe from 1985 to 1987. This was the first such achievement by an Indian crew. In subsequent years, the yacht has been used for international cruises primarily in the Indian Ocean region and is currently still operational.
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2012 Mangalore homestay attack On July 28, 2012, activists belonging to the Hindu Jagarana Vedike, a right-wing group affiliated with the Sangh Parivar, allegedly attacked a birthday party at an unlicensed homestay in Mangalore, Karnataka.
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List of Bollywood films of 1987 A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1987:
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Zanjeer (dog) Zanjeer (from Hindi: जंजीर , "a chain"; ultimately from Persian) (7 January 1992 - 16 November 2000) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a detection dog with the Mumbai Police in Maharashtra state of India. Due to his impeccable service detecting many explosives and other weapons—in particular during the 1993 Mumbai bombings—he was honoured with a full state funeral.
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Intelligence Bureau (India) The Intelligence Bureau (IB) ("khūphiyā vibhāga") is India's internal intelligence agency. It was recast as the Central Intelligence Bureau in 1947 under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The reason for the perception may be because, in 1885, Major General Sir Charles MacGregor was appointed Quartermaster General and head of the Intelligence Department for the British Indian Army at Simla. The objective then was to monitor Russian troop deployments in Afghanistan, fearing a Russian invasion of British India through the North-West during the late 19th century.
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1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout The 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout was a gunbattle that occurred on 16 November 1991 at the Lokhandwala Complex, Bombay (now Mumbai), between seven gangsters led by Maya Dolas and members of the Mumbai police and the ATS led by the then Additional Commissioner of Police, Aftab Ahmed Khan. The four-hour-long shootout was termed as India's "first daylight encounter" and was videographed and conducted in full view of the public. It ended in the deaths of all seven gangsters, including Maya Dolas, Dilip Buwa and Anil Pawar.
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Operation West End Operation West End was the first sting operation done by Tehelka in 2001, the Indian news magazine known for its investigative journalism. It was done in order to make the murky defense deals public. The special correspondents of the magazine filmed several corrupt defense officials and politicians of ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government including Bhartiya Janta Party then President Late Bangaru Laxman. The operation took seven and a half months to complete, which later shook the country and adversely damaged the image of India in the International arena. The nightmarish fact is that a fictitious arms company successfully bought 34 individuals in high places including key politicians of ruling government. It is a known fact that corruption is rampant among politicians but the operation in 2001 blew the lid over sorry state of the nation, which was ruled by Bhartiya Janta Party and its allies, resulting in loss of faith by Indian people.
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Talvar (film) Talvar (English: "Sword"), released internationally as "Guilty", is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Meghna Gulzar and written by Vishal Bharadwaj. The film is based on the 2008 Noida double murder case, in which a teenage girl and her family servant were found murdered, and her parents were convicted for the crime. The film stars Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi and Sohum Shah in leading roles. The film was produced by Junglee Pictures, the films division of The Times of India Group. Originally titled "Nyodda", the film's title was changed to "Talvar" in February 2015. The film was premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in September.