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In May 2026, Byju Raveendran, the founder of BYJU's, was sentenced to six months in jail by a Singapore court for contempt related to procedural failures in disclosure orders concerning a disputed $1.2 billion loan. This was not a case of fraud or embezzlement, as the founder insisted, but a technical distinction that barely masked the deeper crisis. BYJU's, once valued at $22 billion and hailed as India’s most valuable startup, had collapsed dramatically. The company’s downf