sebi:AO/DRAKS/SCN/01/200575/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Penalty of Rs. 1,00,000/- imposed on the noticee for major and minor violations of depository regulations and code of conduct.
Provisions invoked
- s. 4(3)
- s. 15
- s. 19
- s. 15I
- s. 19H
Regulations
- Reg. 41
- Reg. 20A
- Reg. 54(4)
Parties
- JSEL Securities Ltd.
Holding
The Adjudicating Officer found that the noticee, JSEL Securities Ltd., committed both major and minor violations of the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996 and the Code of Conduct, and imposed a penalty of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
Full text
- 2 - Sec. Ltd. and operated jointly by JSEL and the sub-broker. The persons designated to sign the DIS were also involved in the broking operations. (iv) Top officials were involved both in broking and DP operations. (v) The DP did not maintain a dedicated e-mail id for redressal of grievances. (vi) Back office of DP did not provide share price properly resulting in improper capture of the value of transaction which was also not verified by the higher authority. (vii) DP was lax in following the account opening procedures and lacunae were observed in the agreements entered into by DP and clients (BOs). (viii) DP did not dispatch the Demat Request Forms to the issuer RTA within stipulated time. (ix) In certain instances the DP failed to process the DIS by following the maker checker principle. (x) Instances were observed wherein the DIS did not contain signature/contained one signature suggesting improper processing of DIS slips. DP appears not to have exercised proper due diligence. (xi) DP appears not to have adopted proper inward procedures. (xii) Transaction statement obtained from the back office of the DP did not properly reflect certain credit transactions suggesting faulty software.
- 3 - IV. SHOWCAUSE NOTICE AND REPLY Vide letter (reference number AO/DRAKS/SCN/01/174294/2009) dated August 24, 2009 a show cause notice was issued to JSEL to show cause as to why no action should be initiated against them for violations of Depositories Act, 1996, SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996, Circulars of SEBI and CDSL Byelaws and asking them the reasons for not initiating action in terms of Section 15 I of the SEBI Act, 1992 and Section 19 H of the Depositories Act, 1996 for the alleged violations. JSEL (hereinafter referred to as the noticee) was provided with 15 days time to reply to the show cause notice.
- 4 - VII. CONSIDERATION OF ISSUES AND FINDINGS After duly examining the oral and written submissions made by the noticee, the inspection report of CDSL and other documents on record, I proceed further to examine the issues for consideration. I will first take up the irregularities pointed out in the inspection report and then discuss each of them before delieanating my conclusions. My findings in the matter are as follows -
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