The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been cracking down on what they term "Market Manipulation through Cross-Order Matching" and "Synchronized Trading."
In 2022-2024, SEBI passed several orders against entities acting as "Index Dilwale" who were creating artificial volume in illiquid options strikes to attract retail participation. However, catching the "Big Hearted" whales is hard because they hide behind algorithms and multiple broker accounts.
SEBI’s Steps to curb this:
Despite this, the "Index Dilwale" always seem to be one step ahead, moving from plain manipulation to complex "delta hedging" strategies that fall into a regulatory grey area.
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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which manages Aadhaar, initially denied the leak, stating that the exposed numbers were "merely tokens" or non-sensitive. However, security researchers proved that the leaked Aadhaar numbers could be used to download e-KYC data from UIDAI’s own portal.
The incident led to:
You don't need insider information to spot these players. You just need a level 2 tick-by-tick data screen (or a free TradingView chart).
| Normal Market Behavior | Index Dilwale Behavior | | :--- | :--- | | Gradual upmove with consolidation | Vertical spikes followed by immediate reversals (V-shapes) | | High volume from opening to close | Sudden "block trades" in the last 15 minutes | | All sectors moving in sync | Only 2-3 heavyweights moving; rest of market is dead | | OI increases steadily | OI explodes in 15 minutes (Fresh buildup) | The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
The "Bollywood Dialogue" Indicator: If you see a news headline 10 minutes after a massive move saying "Market rises on FII buying," but you saw no buying in the cash market—that was probably the Index Dilwale manipulating the futures basis.
The breach was not discovered by sophisticated hacking tools, but by a Google dork. A Google dork is an advanced search query that uses operators like intitle:index.of or inurl:. On May 2, 2018, a security researcher named Sai Krishna Kothapalli performed a simple search for sensitive file types on Google. He stumbled upon the dilwale directory, which was indexed by Google’s crawlers.
Within minutes, he realized he could download entire databases of:
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The exposed data belonged to residents of Madhya Pradesh, specifically those who had applied for government schemes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) job cards. In total:
Crucially, the server was hosted on a domain belonging to the Madhya Pradesh government’s e-governance infrastructure.