sebi:AO/SBM/EAD-3/12/2017

SEBI · SEBI · 2014-06-30 · Suresh B Menon, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty imposed on the Noticee for violation of Regulation 8(3) of the SAST Regulations, 1997

Provisions invoked

• s. 15A
• s. 15
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 6
• Reg. 8
• Reg. 8(3)
• Reg. 8(1)
• Reg. 35

Parties

• Genesis Developers and Holdings Limited (Formerly known as Genesis Developers & Resorts Ltd)

Holding

The Noticee violated Regulation 8(3) of the SAST Regulations, 1997 by failing to make timely yearly disclosures to stock exchanges for 14 consecutive years (1998-2011), and a penalty of Rs 3,00,000 was imposed under Section 15A(b) of the SEBI Act.

Full text

Page 2 of 14 October 17, 2013, which was communicated to the Noticee by SEBI on February 21, 2014. 2. Pursuant to the rejection of the above said consent application and in view of the alleged violation of the provisions of Regulation 8 (3) of the SAST Regulations by the Noticee for the period between 1998 to 2011, SEBI initiated adjudication proceedings against the Noticee under the provisions of Section 15A (b) of SEBI Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “SEBI Act”). APPOINTMENT OF ADJUDICATING OFFICER

Page 3 of 14 required under regulation 8(3) of the SAST Regulations, 1997 for the years 1998 to 2011. 5. Vide letter dated July 16, 2014, Noticee filed its reply to the SCN. The relevant excerpts of the reply submitted by the Noticee are mentioned as under : (i) Genesis Developers & Holdings Ltd. is a public company listed with DSE, ASE and LSE. The equity shares of the Company were not traded on the stock exchange, as there is no trading terminal provided by the stock exchange yet; (ii) The promoter shareholding has remained the same over the years, so by virtue of the delayed submission, there has been no disproportionate gain or unfair advantage to the promoters; (iii) The Company was unable to appear for IC meeting due to some unavoidable reasons; (iv) The Financial position of the company is very weak and suffered losses from last many years; (v) Since there was no competent person having an adequate knowledge of the reporting requirements under the erstwhile SEBI Regulations, 1997, no such report was filed…; (vi) Delayed intimation is purely technical in nature and without any malafide. The delayed intimation… has not caused any loss, financial or economical to any of the shareholders or anybody otherwise thereto; (vii) No economic benefit has accrued to the Noticee Company or to its management and no loss can be assumed to have been caused to any of the investors on account of the delayed submission of the disclosure

Page 4 of 14 6. In terms of Rule 4(3) of the Adjudication Rules and in the interest of natural justice, Noticee was granted an opportunity of personal hearing on October 13, 2015 vide letter dated September 29, 2015. The Noticee vide its letter dated October 07, 2015 requested for adjournment of the hearing. Thereafter, vide letter dated February 26, 2016, the Noticee was granted another opportunity of personal hearing on March 29, 2016. Mr. Shanti Bhushan M. Nirmal (Authorized Representative on behalf of the Noticee and hereinafter “AR”) appeared for the hearing on March 29, 2016. The AR reiterated the submissions made by the Noticee in its reply to the SCN. Further, the AR also mentioned that the delayed disclosures made by the Noticee under regulation 8(3) of the SAST Regulations was unintentional and there was no loss caused to any investor and the promoters of the Company had not made any unlawful gains. Pursuant to the hearing, the Noticee also made additional submissions vide its letter dated April 12, 2016.

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