How India Reacts to Rajat Gupta's Sentence

As per an interview to Business Today, Dr. Reddy’s Vice chairman G.V. Prasad while talking about Rajat’s charitable educational work including his role in establishment of Indian School of Business said," One feels at times that we do not know everybody completely. We know a certain portion of a person. I have always admired Rajat as an individual of great calibre, wanting to do good for the world. So, this part of him, where he talked to Raj Rajaratnam or whatever, has always been something of a mystery to me. It is important for us businesspeople to be more watchful in everything we do to ensure that not just the law but also the spirit of the law is respected."

Chairman & managing director of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, said, as per Wall Street Journal,India, “I was expecting the sentence to be a lot more lenient. They decided to make an example of a good man, who in a moment of weakness made an error of judgment. He comes across as a humanitarian, a good person, a man of integrity. And that’s why I think he’s paying a very lofty price for an error of judgment. He’s a man who was keen on making a change in his home country, in areas like healthcare and governance. So it’s very said that he had to be the fall guy.”

As per the report, Rana Kapoor, managing director and chief executive officer of Yes Bank Ltd, expressed his disappointment over the verdict stating “I personally believe that the sentence is very extreme. It should have been duly weighted against his sterling track record on the social front, public policy and extraordinary work.”