February: India TV Swaminarayan sadhus from Gujarat shown having sex with their devotees.
March Congressman acting on behalf of the BJP caught indulging in horse-trading after the Jharkhand elections. Tape later given to the media.

March: India TV Operation Casting Couch traps actor Shakti Kapoor demanding sex from ‘aspirant’ actress.

March: India TV Actor Aman Verma shown taking a reporter (posing as an actress) looking for a role into his bedroom.

May: Aaj Tak Operation ‘Ghoos Mahal’ exposes 82 employees of the sales tax office in Delhi taking bribes.

August: Star News Jharkhand IG P.S. Natarajan suspended for forcing a tribal woman to have sex with him. She set a trap for him and roped in a TV channel.

October: India TV Govinda shown at a Dawood Ibrahim party with D Company members.

October: NDTV Spycam catches Delhi cop demanding a bribe to hand over the dead body of a suicide victim to his family.

November: NDTV Railway cops deployed on trains caught on camera harassing passengers and demanding money.

November: Star News Delhi doctors selling babies caught on spycam.

December: AAj TAk Aaj Tak-Cobrapost’s Operation Duryodhan: MPs caught on camera taking bribes for asking questions in Parliament.

December: Star News Operation Chakravyuh catches MPs accepting commission for alloting funds from their MPLAD quota.

December BJP general secretary Sanjay Joshi resigns after being caught on CD showing him in a compromising position with a woman. The CD is circulated among party members and the press.

December: Aaj Tak TV reporter masquerading as doctor gains entry into Amitabh Bachchan’s ICU room in Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital.

December News that Amar Singh’s phone was being tapped sparks off a major controversy.

Jan ’06: Kairali TV Kerala health minister K.K. Ramachandran Master resigns: a recording shows him instructing a district medical officer to depose in a favourable manner in an appointments scam case.