The NSEL suspended the trading of all contracts on the 31st of July, 2013. Eventually, 24 trading entities defaulted on their payment to the spot exchange, which amounted to around Rs. 5600 crores.
Interestingly, the highest number of irregularities have been discovered in Channapatna and Kanakapura taluks of Ramanagaram district, from where both HD Kumaraswamy and DK Shivakumar have been elected.