About
About IEI
What IEI is, how it works, and who built it.
The Team · IEI
Meet the Team
Tanya Ganguli
Founder, TG Law Offices and IEI
Tanya Ganguli founded TG Law Offices to build a specialist practice at the intersection of corporate governance, regulatory enforcement and white-collar defence. She advises Fortune 500 and DAX 40 companies, C-suite executives and financial institutions before the DOJ, SEC, Hong Kong SFC and Indian enforcement bodies, with particular depth in the FCPA, UK Bribery Act and Indian anti-corruption legislation.
Her practice spans internal investigations across bribery and corruption, financial fraud, insider trading, money laundering and regulatory non-compliance, as well as adversarial proceedings before Indian enforcement agencies.
IEI grows from TG Law’s research practice. The same rigour applied to client work informs every entry in this database.
Nandini Zunder
Founding Member of IEI, Strategist and Research Lead
Nandini Zunder is a law student who believes the most interesting work happens at the edges of disciplines. At TG Law Offices, she was given a small idea and the space to see what it could become. IEI is the result.
As a founding member, she shapes the research methodology, the classification standards and the strategic direction of the database. Outside of that, she is someone who likes treading uncharted waters and believes everything is interconnected, and strives to leave any place better than she finds it.
She is early in her career and intends to stay curious for as long as possible. Most things are still ahead.
What IEI Is
What this is
The Indian Enforcement Index is a database of enforcement actions taken by six Indian agencies: ED, CBI, SEBI, RBI, CCI and SFIO.
Every entry covers one specific action: an attachment order, an arrest, a penalty, a conviction, a restitution. Each is classified across 19 fields and verified by the team at TG Law Offices before publication.
No equivalent resource existed for Indian enforcement data. TG Law built IEI to fill that gap.
It is free to use, with no registration required to browse the full database.
Who IEI Is For
Who this is for
Lawyers use IEI for enforcement research, counterparty background checks and precedent analysis.
Law students use IEI to research PMLA, SEBI enforcement, competition law and corporate fraud.
Journalists use IEI to track regulatory and criminal enforcement actions.
Compliance teams use IEI to track enforcement trends in their sector.
Academics and researchers use IEI to study Indian enforcement patterns.
Anyone who wants to understand what an ED notice, a SEBI order or a CBI chargesheet means in practice.
No specialist knowledge is needed. The Brief Facts on every entry explain the matter in plain language.
Coverage
The six agencies
Enforcement Directorate
Legislation: PMLA 2002, FEMA 1999, FEOA 2018
Actions tracked: IEI tracks provisional attachment orders (PAOs), arrests, prosecution complaints, restitution orders, FEO declarations and searches.
Primary source: https://enforcementdirectorate.gov.in
Central Bureau of Investigation
Legislation: IPC, Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, DSPE Act 1946
Actions tracked: IEI tracks chargesheets, arrests, convictions, sentencing orders and trap cases.
Primary source: https://cbi.gov.in
Securities and Exchange Board of India
Legislation: SEBI Act 1992, PFUTP Regulations 2003, Insider Trading Regulations 2015
Actions tracked: IEI tracks adjudication orders, consent orders, disgorgement directions, market ban orders, and SAT and Supreme Court rulings on SEBI orders.
Primary source: https://sebi.gov.in
Reserve Bank of India
Legislation: RBI Act 1934, Banking Regulation Act 1949, FEMA 1999
Actions tracked: IEI tracks monetary penalty orders, compounding orders under FEMA and licence cancellations.
Primary source: https://rbi.org.in
Competition Commission of India
Legislation: Competition Act 2002, Combination Regulations 2011
Actions tracked: IEI focuses on combination enforcement: Section 43A penalties for gun-jumping and failure to notify mergers, and antitrust orders in abuse of dominance and cartelisation matters.
Primary source: https://cci.gov.in
Serious Fraud Investigation Office
Legislation: Companies Act 2013
Actions tracked: SFIO matters routinely run alongside ED and CBI proceedings on the same entities. IEI tracks arrests, prosecution complaints and court rulings in SFIO cases.
Primary source: https://sfio.gov.in
How entries are made
Every entry goes through four steps before it appears in the database. None are skipped.
1. Scrape
Each morning, the pipeline checks all six agency websites for new press releases and orders. ED, CBI and SFIO publish PDF documents. SEBI, RBI and CCI publish structured order pages. The pipeline reads both formats.
2. Parse
An AI model reads each document and extracts 19 fields: the entity involved, the action taken, the statute invoked, the quantum, the jurisdiction, the outcome and more. The model is calibrated specifically to how Indian enforcement agencies write their orders and releases.
3. Review
The team at TG Law reads the parsed entry against the original document. Entries that clearly meet the inclusion criteria for that agency are approved. Entries with uncertain or incomplete fields are flagged for closer review before they are published, edited, or discarded.
4. Publish
Approved entries go live and become searchable immediately. Entries that have completed full review by the team at TG Law carry a Verified badge.
If you find an error in any entry, you can flag it directly from the entry page. Every flag is reviewed by a member of the team.
Schema
What each field means
Every entry in IEI uses the same 19 fields. Here is what each one captures.
Serial Number
Sequential identifier within each agency.
Agency
ED, CBI, SEBI, RBI, CCI or SFIO.
Date of Key Action
DD-MM-YYYY. Date of the primary enforcement action: arrest, attachment, penalty or conviction.
Stage / Type of Action
Standardised label for the enforcement step: Provisional Attachment Order, Conviction, Monetary Penalty, etc.
Genre / Type of Matter
Category of the underlying matter: Bank Fraud, Insider Trading, Gun-Jumping, FEMA Violation, etc.
Nature of Entity
Individual, Company/Firm, Trust, Multiple individuals, Multiple entities, Individual and Company, or Company and Trust.
Entity Details
All named accused, entities, victim organisations and regulated entities involved.
Brief Facts
Four-sentence maximum summary written to professional legal standards.
Key Statutory Offences Invoked
Precise statutory citations: section numbers, act names, year of enactment.
Predicate Offence Description
The underlying criminal or regulatory violation that triggered the enforcement action.
Relevant State / Jurisdiction
State or territory where the offence occurred or the enforcement action was taken.
Forum and Case Reference
Court, tribunal or authority that issued the order; case number where available.
Findings and What They Held
Legal ratio: what the court or authority found, decided or directed.
Outcome
Final result of this action step: arrest, attachment, conviction, penalty imposed, etc.
Punishment / Penalty
Specific sanction: imprisonment term, fine, market ban duration, disgorgement order, etc.
Quantum Fields
All monetary figures: PAO value, fraud quantum, penalty amount, disgorgement, PoC value, recovery.
Source Link
Direct URL to the official primary source document. Official government domain only.
Secondary Link
Secondary source or related document. Optional.
Notes / Tags
Internal tags: sector, modus operandi, cross-case patterns, enforcement signals.
Common Questions
Questions people ask before trusting the data
Is the data free to access?
Yes. The full database is publicly accessible at no cost. No registration is required to browse entries, search by agency, sector or entity, or view the full 19-field record for any action. Registration will be required in the future for saved searches and custom reports.
How do I know an entry is reliable?
Every entry links directly to the official source document: the press release, order or judgment published on the relevant agency's website. The team at TG Law Offices reads and verifies each entry before publication. Entries with a Verified badge have passed that review. The database does not include secondary news sources or unverified claims.
Can I use IEI for due diligence on a counterparty?
Yes. IEI is designed for exactly this use case. Search the entity or person's name in the Accused Search. If they appear, you will see every enforcement action across all six agencies in one place, with the source link and the full legal record. IEI does not constitute legal advice and is not a substitute for a full legal opinion on a transaction.
What if an entry about me or my client is wrong?
Write to tanya@tglaw.in with the entry ID and the specific error. Every entry has a source link. If the source document says something different from what the entry records, we will correct it. If the underlying government publication contains the error, we note that in the record and flag it for monitoring.
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Frequently asked questions
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Research · IEI
For Researchers
IEI data is available for academic research, journalism and public interest work.
All entries are sourced from official government publications. The 19-field schema is consistent across all six agencies, making cross-agency and longitudinal analysis straightforward.
For data access, research partnerships or media enquiries write to tanya@tglaw.in.
Attribution
TG Law Offices
Governance · Investigations · White-Collar Defence
The Indian Enforcement Index is a research initiative of TG Law Offices. TG Law is a specialist practice in governance, regulatory investigations and white-collar defence. The firm advises on complex enforcement matters involving ED, CBI, SEBI, RBI and other agencies.
IEI grew out of the firm’s research practice. The same rigour applied to client work applies to every entry in this database.
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“India had no central record of enforcement actions across all six agencies. We built the one we wished existed.”