1992 in India

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Events in the year 1992 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – R. Venkataraman until 25 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Chief Justice of India – Madhukar Hiralal Kania until 17 November, Lalit Mohan Sharma

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
• Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy
• Assam – Loknath Mishra
• Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
• Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
• Gujarat – Sarup Singh
• Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
• Himachal Pradesh – Virendra Verma
• Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena
• Karnataka – Bhanu Pratap Singh (until 6 January), Khurshed Alam Khan (starting 6 January)
• Kerala – B. Rachaiah
• Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan
• Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam
• Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi
• Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
• Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal
• Nagaland – M. M. Thomas (until 12 April), Loknath Mishra (starting 13 April)
• Odisha – Yagya Dutt Sharma
• Punjab – Surendra Nath
• Rajasthan – Sarup Singh (until 5 February), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 5 February)
• Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
• Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
• Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy
• West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events[]

• 1 February – Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from the United States.
• 23 April – Scam of Harshad Mehta was exposed by journalist Sucheta Dalal, which consisted of SBI 500 Crore Scam and illegal usage of loophole in banking system.
• May – Over 200 people die in Cuttack in Odisha, after drinking illegally brewed liquor. About 600 people were hospitalised (see: 1992 Odisha liquor deaths).
• 14 August Veerappan Gang Trapped and killed Mysore District SP, T.Harikrishna, SI Shakeel Ahmed and four constables named Benegonda, C.M.Kalappa, Sundara and M.P.Appachu, through a false informant near Meenyam in Karnataka
• 2 October – Zee Television, a Hindi language satellite and cable television station, a first officially regular broadcasting service to start in Mumbai.^[1]
• 6 December – Members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India. The mosque is built over a shrine which exhorted the small piece of land as Ram Janmabhoomi – the birthplace of Lord Rama. This sparks off nationwide communal riots in which some 3,000 people die.
• Government of India establishes SEBI, stock exchange regulator.
• Indian Rupee exchange rate collapsed. It was 20 Rs to 1 dollar in January 1992 and it became 30 Rs to 1 dollar in December 1992. A huge 50% depreciation in value.^[2]

Births[]

• 5 January – Sanjay Balmuchu, footballer
• 27 February – Abigail Jain, actress
• 1 March – Alwyn George, footballer
• 

  KL Rahul
  18 April – K. L. Rahul, cricketer
• 4 March – Gaurav Sharma, author
• 4 May - Shiv Kumar Sharma, Assistant Professor
• 4 July – Yuki Bhambri, tennis player
• 30 July – Vishal Kumar, football player
• 15 September – Shilton D'Silva, soccer player
• 23 November - Navdeep Saini, cricketer^[3]
• 24 December – Soram Anganba, footballer
• 31 December – Manu Attri, badminton player
• 7 August – Deepak Chahar, cricketer
• 15 August – Baskaran Adhiban, chess Grandmaster

Deaths[]

• 27 January – Bharat Bhushan, actor (born 1920).
• 

  Satyajit Ray
  23 April – Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (born 1921).
• 17 July – Kanan Devi, actress and singer (born 1916).
• 27 July – Amjad Khan, actor and director (born 1940).
• 3 November – Prem Nath, actor (born 1926).

Full date unknown[]

• V. K. Gokak, writer and scholar (born 1909).

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1992

References[]