According to media reports and an Indian MP, the Adani Group has carried out a highly questionable transfer of millions of tonnes of coal from a controversial mine whose allocation to the Adani Group was also carried out in a questionable manner. The coal, supposedly owned by a state-owned power company, was instead burnt in three Adani coal-power plants. Recent media reports that have not been denied suggest that there have been several instances of questionable allocation and diversion of coal by group companies. These reports delve further into one of the damning allegations against the Adani Group published by Hindenburg Research in January.

On May 17, 2021, Cyclone Tauktae caused the barge P-305 to sink. Over 70 people lost their lives. Some of the victims’ relatives are still awaiting compensation.

An engineers’ union has alleged that an Adani-owned coal-power station is part of an unauthorised scheme to divert electricity that is contracted to supply the northern Indian state of Haryana to the western state of Gujarat – the home state of Adani chairman Gautam Adani and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to the union’s complaint to authorities, the diversion occurred in the peak of the summer months, while Haryana was facing a debilitating heat wave and rolling blackouts, and again recently, during an election period in Gujarat.

An association of small textile manufacturers and market leader Reliance Industries Limited are engaged in a fight over import duties on Mono Ethylene Glycol, a key raw material in the manufacture of synthetic fibres.