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Deceit-free fraud and stigma-free indictment

If society feels that regulations can hold even the innocent to be guilty, the stigma attached to findings of guilt would also erode alongside

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Illustration: Binay Sinha

5 min read Last Updated : Sep 23 2020 | 1:36 AM IST

One would truly know one has lost one’s way with regulating fraud when told that there can be fraud without deceit and injury without a victim. Unfortunately, securities market regulation and enforcement are getting there rapidly.

Essentially, two bodies of law are at play — regulations prohibiting violative insider trading and those prohibiting fraudulent and unfair trade practices relating to the securities market. A series of regulatory enforcements, based primarily on regulations designed as a body of principles but enforced like a hidebound set of rules, is taking the Indian securities market to a domain of fraud without deceit.

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