sebi:11347

SEBI · SEBI · 1996-06-28 · G A K Batra, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Prohibited D K Shah from buying, selling or dealing in securities for a period of two years with immediate effect.

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SEBI prohibited D K Shah from buying, selling or dealing in securities for a period of two years for fraudulently creating a false appearance of oversubscription in the public issue of Infoquest Software Exports Ltd.

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AGAINST SHRI D.K. SHAH, IN THE MATTER OF INFOQUEST SOFTWARE EXPORTS LTD. BACKGROUND 1. M/s Infoquest Software Exports Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “ISEL”) came out with a public issue of 43,18,800 equity shares of Rs. 10/- each for cash at par aggregating to Rs. 431.88 lacs. The public issue opened on April 15, 1996 and closed on April 18, 1996. The shares of the company are listed at the Bombay, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Madhya Pradesh stock exchanges.

1995 was alleged against him. Vide the said show cause notice, he was also asked to show cause as to why action should not be taken under Regulation 11 & 12 of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 read with Section 11 and 11B of SEBI Act, 1992.

in the public issue, which led to price rise in the scrip after listing, thereby further inducing interest of investors in the scrip of ISEL. I find that the scrip was listed on BSE and ASE at around Rs.50/-. The scrip went up to Rs.64/- in two trading days and fell to Rs.46/- after around 15 trading days. Due to this volatility in price BSE has imposed a special margin of Rs.15/- on June 18, 1996.

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