New Delhi (06.03.2022): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday evening arrested Chitra Ramkrishna, former chief executive officer of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in connection with its probe into the stock market manipulation, officials said. A senior officer said Ramakrishna was arrested from Delhi and will be interrogated at length about the irregularities in the NSE during her tenure.

Ramkrishna is charged with leaking sensitive information, claiming that she was acting on the advice of a so-called Himalayan yogi, who investigators maintain was former group operating officer Anand Subramanian. This arrest was made a day after a Delhi court refused to grant anticipatory bail to Chitra Ramkrishna stating that there were strong chances that she may influence the probe and tamper with the evidence. Additional sessions judge Sanjeev Aggarwal also pulled up CBI for its “lackadaisical” probe, saying that the agency hadn’t taken action against the main beneficiaries of the co-location scam, who seem to be enjoying merrily at the expense of common citizenry”.