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

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.
• 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
• 6 December - Workers of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India. The mosque is believed to have been 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.^[1]

Births

• 5 January - Sanjay Balmuchu, footballer
• 27 February - Abigail Jain, actress
• 1 March - Alwyn George, footballer
• 4 July - Yuki Bhambri, tennis player
• 30 July - Vishal Kumar, football player
• 20 September - Vishnu vijay
• 15 September - Shilton D'Silva, soccer player
• 30 October - Bharat Darade,Scientist of Microbiology, winning award of Talent-er of Tata Research centre, Pune at just 23 year old
• 24 December - Soram Anganba, footballer
• 31 December - Manu Attri, badminton player

Full date unknown

• Baskaran Adhiban, chess Grandmaster

Deaths

• 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).
• unknown - [ [Sunder ] ],Comedian

Full date unknown

• Bharat Bhushan, actor (born 1920).
• V. K. Gokak, writer and scholar (born 1909).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1992

References

1. "Interactive graph: Indian rupee vs US dollar since 1990". Ibnlive.in.com. 2012-05-24. Retrieved 2013-07-31.