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The Information Technology Act, 2000

§72APenalty

for disclosure of information in breach of lawful contract.–Save as otherwise provided in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, any person including an intermediary who, while providing services under the terms of lawful contract, has secured access to any material containing personal information about another person, with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or wrongful gain discloses, without the consent of the person concerned, or in breach of a lawful contract, such material to any other person, shall be [liable to penalty which may extend to twenty-five lakh rupees].]

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Official India Code text: The Information Technology Act, 2000, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1999/1/A2000-21 (1).pdf, 462,882 bytes, sha256 45fb45419e5da89a...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.

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