The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) has filed a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored investigation by a SIT or the CBI into the high level of political-bureaucratic-corporate nexus wherein corporates use their money power to change public policies, plant questions in Parliament, get access to internal government documents / cabinet papers, grant favours to politicians and bureaucrats for benefits in return, and plant stories in the news media. The petition is based on internal emails and documents from Essar Group of Companies which is one of India’s leading business conglomerate having multi-billion dollar investments in oil, steel, energy, ports, shipping, infrastructure and services sectors in India. Essar emails are a trove of information and show all the characteristic methods of “corporate affairs” in India.
