Should get
@Nilgiri's opinion about this.
Its a typical (outsourced non-direct) hatchet job.
They cut their teeth on some small fry that did have some legitimate cause to investigate like nikola (with regards to non-asset volatility % etc).... but its certainly interesting they ramped all the way up to Adani suddenly.
Why they go after a corporate in developing India (that too one with fairly high asset basis compared to many in the west), well....people are saying they are linked to short seller funders that basically took profit from Adani stock price reduction.
Indian authorities (SEBI et al) should investigate if there was any irregularities beforehand to this drop.
IMO, this kind of stuff combined with the modi documentary (by halliburton iraq war inc of all hypocrites) is part of pattern that will emerge this year and next increasingly (though maybe not consistently, we have to see)....and maybe longer than that too once its "normalised" (right now its something of new phenomenon).
There are various reasons they want to put pressure on current administration and corporate groups....
little nips and snipes but nothing serious (as it would open up their own hypocrisy far more).
A lot of it is maybe directly connected to India-Russia relationship (i.e West trying to use more stick than carrot over it) at least in the short term. That is my feeling (since they already knew this long about Modi era, and India corporates etc so one asks "why now?" etc)
Long term they also want to flex and test ways to use against India, as their experience with China is pretty much a nightmare as they completely ignored how to do it with them and are rushing to correct that.... India is earlier in that road for them (i.e still below 5 tril gdp and then still below 10 tril GDP etc) and has same perceived potential to "go rogue if its big enough" etc.... so they will prod all the transparencies that India has this decade....so that (economically and politically speaking) the youth grows to be more of the adult they want it to be etc.
India will have to learn and adapt to all of this.