sebi:AO/SG-AS/EAD/29/2017

SEBI · SEBI · 1994-10-11 · Suresh Gupta, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty imposed on noticee for violations of STA Regulations and RRTI Circular

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15I
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 13
• Reg. 9
• Reg. 8
• Reg. 14
• Reg. 14(1)
• Reg. 14(3)
• Reg. 8A
• Reg. 14(2)(h)

Parties

• CB Management Services Private Limited

Holding

The noticee CB Management Services Private Limited violated Clause 2 of Code of Conduct under Regulation 13 of STA Regulations, Clause 1(a) of Schedule I to the draft agreement specified vide RRTI Circular, Regulation 9(A)(e) of STA Regulations, and Regulation 14(3)(c) of STA Regulations read with Instruction 2(vii) of RRTI Circular, and a penalty of Rs. 11,00,000/- was imposed under Section 15HB of the SEBI Act.

Full text

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adjudication Order in respect of CB Management Services Private Limited Page 2 of 18 (c) Out of the 57 client companies of the noticee, for 15 companies no intimation was sent to Exchange in respect of issuance of duplicate share certificates. In respect of the other companies, substantial delay was observed in intimating the respective Exchange(s). (d) The inspection team also perused miscellaneous requests such as change of address, change of bank details etc. received from shareholders by CBMSPL. It was noted that the noticee had taken inordinate number of days in effecting the change and communicating the same to the shareholders. (e) Out of the 574 investor grievances received by the noticee, noticee had not redressed / taken any action w.r.t. 256 complaints even though 30 days had expired. (f) Noticee did not have the specimen signatures of the shareholders w.r.t 3 companies of Uniworth Group i.e. Uniworth Limited, Uniworth Textiles Limited and Uniworth International Limited. It was noted that without signature cards noticee has been processing shareholder requests with respect to transfer, demat, remat, duplicate etc. received from the shareholders all these years.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adjudication Order in respect of CB Management Services Private Limited Page 3 of 18 under Section 15-I of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SEBI Act’) read with Rule 3 of the SEBI (Procedure of Holding Inquiry and Imposing Penalties by Adjudicating Officer) Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Rules’) to inquire into and adjudge under the provisions of Section 15HB of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SEBI Act’), the alleged violations of provisions of STA Regulations and RRTI Circularcommitted by the noticee.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adjudication Order in respect of CB Management Services Private Limited Page 4 of 18 arrange at the request of investors who are not ready to bear the entire cost of advertisement. Thus these cases should not be looked as “delay” on our part but merely instances of accommodation to help shareholders/investors.

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