1992 in India

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Events in the year 1992 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman until July 25, Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao

dussehra 1992

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 Orissa, after drinking illegally brewed liquor. About 600 people were hospitalised (see: 1992 Orissa liquor deaths).
• 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.

Births

• 9 February - Raj Chouhan, politician
• 27 February - Abigail Jain, actress
• 3 March- Sagar Pradhan, Computer Engineer
• 29 April - Sujith kuttan
• 4 July - Yuki Bhambri, tennis player
• 30 July - Vishal Kumar, football player
• 18 August - Utsav Lal, concert pianist
• 15 September - Shilton D'Silva, soccer player
• 10 December - Deepak Devrani, soccer player
• 21 December - Sunil Jadhav, cricketer

Full date unknown

• Lalrindika Ralte, footballer

Deaths

• 23 April - Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (b.1921).
• 17 July - Kanan Devi, actress and singer (b.1916).
• 27 July - Amjad Khan, actor and director (b.1940).
• 3 November - Prem Nath, actor (b.1926).

Full date unknown

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

See also

• Bollywood films of 1992

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