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Fraudulently inducing persons to deal in securities
131. (1) A person shall not induce or attempt to induce another person to trade in securities traded on an exchange licensed by the Commission or a platform operated by a recognised market operator, -
(a) by making or publishing any statement or by making any forecast that he knows to be misleading, false or deceptive;
(b) by any dishonest concealment of material facts;
(c) by the reckless making or publishing, dishonestly or otherwise of any statement or forecast that is misleading, false or deceptive; or
(d) by recording or storing in, or by means of, any mechanical, electronic or other device, information that he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
(2) Forthepurposesofparagraph(d)ofsubsection(1),it shall be a defence if the person referred to therein establishes that when the information was recorded or stored, that such person had no reasonable grounds for believing that the information would be available to any other person.
147. (1) A person who contravenes sections 128, 129, 130, 131, 132 or subsections (2) and (3) of section 137 commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not less than ten million rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and imprisonment.