India's federal fiscal deficit during April-September, the first half of the current fiscal year, stood at 5.27 trillion rupees ($70.4 billion) or 35% of the budgeted target for the whole year, government data showed on Friday.

       Net tax receipts were 9.2 trillion rupees while total expenditure was 16.3 trillion rupees, the data showed.

       ($1 = 74.8860 Indian rupees)

       (Reporting by Manoj Kumar, Editing by William Maclean)

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