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Market Manipulators Take To Dark Web, Whatspp As Sebi Steps Up Surveillance
Market manipulators take to WhatsApp to share sensitive information
Bourses deploying systems to enable people to give tip-off on such groups
Regulator Sebi can seek call data records from telecom firms for probe
New Delhi: Market manipulators have hooked onto dark web and private chat groups on messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram for sharing 'multibagger' stock tips and unpublished price sensitive information about listed firms. This has prompted the exchanges and the regulator to beef up the 'whistleblower' framework to encourage people, including investors and those working with various market intermediaries, to anonymously give a ti...