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Neera Yadav:
Neera Yadav is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer (former chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh during the chief ministership of Mulayam Singh Yadav), who has been held guilty by the CBI for violating the rules in allotting the plots during her tenure as Noida authority chief. The charges also includes allotting out of turn plots to bureaucrats, politicians, industrialists and her near and dear ones . She has been acussed of wrongfully allotting an industrial plot in Noida to Flex Industries Limited in 1994-95 and the court has sentenced her to four years' imprisonment this December. As per the CBI records, she has acquired four NOIDA plots for two daughters, herself and her husband a BJP MLA, owns property in Bulandshahar, Ghaziabad and Lucknow, Bangalore and Bombay. A few are still under scrutunity. Neera Yadav now earns the dubious distinctive title of being the country's first IAS officer to be removed from the post of chief secretary by the Supreme Court on charges of corruption.

Madhuri Gupta: Indian diplomat in Pakistan
a second secretary of the Indian High Commission in Pakistan, was arrested in April 2010 on the charges of spying for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and leaking some important documents.

Sujata Sachdeva: July 2010
Former Vice President of finance at Koss Corporation A 46 year old Indian-American woman executive has been pleaded guilty for defrauding her company of USD 34 million. She had authorised several wire transfers of funds from bank accounts maintained by Koss to pay for her American Express credit card bills. She also used that money from Koss' bank accounts to fund numerous cashier's checks, which she also used to pay her personal expenses. She has also used the money to purchase personal items including women's clothing, furs, purses, shoes, jewellery, automobiles, china, statues, and other household furnishings.