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    There are more than 26,000 ways to jail a businessman in India

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    An ORF report brings out 26,134 imprisonment clauses embedded in laws enacted by the Union and state governments, and highlights risks faced by entrepreneurs and corporations in doing business in the country.

    V G Siddhartha’s body was found floating in a river two days after he went for a walk on July 29, 2019. The Café Coffee Day owner’s suicide sent shockwaves in industry that rued the death by his own hands of a home-grown businessman. His suicide note said he had made some wrong investment calls and that he also faced harassment by income tax authorities. A year-long probe highlighted what went wrong, talking of debt-fuelled growth.But a larger
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