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The best hope for the Kochhars to get out of this mess is ED itself

It's a massive irony, but the agency's poor track record in convictions is the only light at the end of a rather long tunnel for the couple

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Shyamal Majumdar
After reluctantly resigning from ICICI Bank in October 2018, Chanda Kochhar would often tell the rapidly dwindling number of people who still met her that she had a problem with the mindset of Indians towards professionally successful couples. Nobody, she would say, seemed to believe that a wife or a husband could keep the sensitive details of their professional work secret from each other.  

The hint was loud and clear: She and her husband never discussed business and had no clue of each other’s commercial decisions. Essentially, she was trying to rubbish the quid pro quo theory when Videocon Industries
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