DPDP Act Statutory Penalty Schedule (Section 33)
Security Safeguards Failure (Section 8(5))
Statutory fine up to ₹250 Crore ($28.5M USD) for failure to take reasonable security safeguards to prevent personal data breach. Public cloud API prompt logging directly violates Section 8 safeguards.
Statutory Ceiling: ₹250 Crore per Occurrence
Elesium Sovereign Safe Harbor
Air-gapped open-weight LLMs hosted exclusively inside MeitY-empaneled Indian data centers (AWS Mumbai / GCP Delhi / CtrlS) with sub-10ms localized PII redaction and cryptographic audit trails.
Statutory Safe Harbor: Zero Cross-Border Egress