sebi:1300691721781
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Facts / Headnote
Directions issued debarring Ambuja Zinc Ltd and its directors from accessing the capital market for five years, including public companies in which the directors hold controlling or substantial interest.
Provisions invoked
- s. 11B
- s. 11(1)
- s. 21
Parties
- Ambuja Zinc Ltd
- Shri Durga Prasad Gupta
- Shri Shyam Sunder Gupta
- Shri Gopi Krishna Gupta
- Shri Madan Mohan Choudhary
- Shri Krishna Vadan R Desai
Holding
SEBI directed Ambuja Zinc Ltd and its five named directors to disassociate from capital market related activities and barred them from accessing the capital market for a period of five years, including public companies in which those directors hold controlling or substantial interest.
Full text
Shyam Sunder Gupta, Shri Madan Mohan Choudhary and Shri Krishna Vadan R Desai are shown as directors. Their qualifications and experience are also mentioned.
under section 11B of SEBI Act, as mentioned in the show cause notices issued to them. The failure to submit the reports and annual accounts by such companies to the stock exchange, is in violation of the provisions of the Listing Agreement read with section 21 of Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. 5.2 Further, the vanishing of companies after raising moneys from the public is a matter of grave concern. These violations and the non-traceability of the companies of this kind are detrimental to the interest of investors and to the integrity of securities market. Besides they have also eroded the confidence of the investors and the credibility of the capital market, which calls for suitable preventive action. Suitable preventive action. Therefore, it would be necessary in the interest of investors and for healthy development of the securities market, that companies such as AZL and their directors who have vanished after raising money from the public should be prevented from accessing the capital markets again in future. Such a step would protect the investors from being duped by such vanishing companies. The above measure would also help in restoring confidence of investors and promoting integrity of securities market as it would give signal to the market that the fly by night operators will not be allowed to access the capital market. 5.3 The Supreme Court in Radheyshyam Khemka v. State of Bihar, observed as follows: "Originally the concept of a company implied an asso
capital market related activities and not to access the capital market for a period of five years. I also direct more specifically that the public companies in which the above directors hold controlling or substantial interest shall not be allowed to raise funds from the capital market for a period of five years. Dated at Mumbai on this 27th day of September 2002.
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