sebi:AO/SG-VS/EAD/95/2018

SEBI · SEBI · 2014-04-09 · Suresh Gupta, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation established; penalty imposed

Provisions invoked

• s. 15A
• s. 15
• s. 15J
• s. 2(30)
• s. 2(24)
• s. 2(45)
• s. 2(1)
• s. 386
• s. 387

Regulations

• Reg. 13
• Reg. 2
• Reg. 13(4)
• Reg. 13(5)
• Reg. 2(g)

Parties

• Ms. Gargi Dash

Holding

Ms. Gargi Dash was held to be an 'officer' of ING Vysya Bank Limited and to have violated regulation 13(4) read with regulation 13(5) of the PIT Regulations, 1992 for failing to disclose sales of shares exceeding Rs. 5 lakh in value on November 02, 2012, January 31, 2013 and March 28, 2013. A monetary penalty of Rs. 4,00,000 under Section 15A(b) of the SEBI Act, 1992 was imposed on her.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of Ms. Gargi Dash in the matter of M/s ING Vysya Bank Limited Page 2 of 17 4. It was alleged that Noticee being an officer of ING, upon selling the shares of ING leading to change in the shareholding for more than ` 5 Lakh in value, was required to make the disclosures to ING and to BSE in accordance with the provisions of regulation 13(4) read with regulation 13(5) of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred as ‘PIT Regulations’) within two working days from the date of transactions, which Noticee failed to do. Therefore, it was alleged that Noticee had violated the provisions of regulation 13(4) read with regulation 13(5) of PIT Regulations.

Adjudication Order in respect of Ms. Gargi Dash in the matter of M/s ING Vysya Bank Limited Page 3 of 17 2016, vide notice of hearing dated December 08, 2015 at SEBI, Head Office, Mumbai. The copy of the SCN dated September 05, 2014 was also enclosed along with the said notice of hearing with an advise to reply and was sent at the address “B1001, St. Jhon Woods Apts, Tavarakare Road Koramangla, Bangalore, Karnataka – 560 001” and the same returned undelivered with remark ‘Addressee left’. In view of the above, the Noticee was granted an opportunity of hearing on July 01, 2016 vide notice of hearing dated June 13, 2016. A copy of the SCN and the Notice of hearing dated December 08, 2015 were annexed to the said notice of hearing and the Noticee was also advised to submit a reply to the SCN on or before June 27, 2016. The said notice of hearing was sent to the Noticee at the addresses ‘A/47, Kharvel Nagar, Unit – 3 Bhubaneshwar, Dist Khurda, Khurda Orissa - 751001’ and ‘Carraro India Ltd, B2/2 MIDC, Ranjangaon Pune - 412210’. Noticee vide her email and reply dated June 23, 2016 acknowledged the receipt of the aforesaid notice of hearing. Vide her said email & letter, she also submitted her address for communication and inter alia submitted as under: “….My position in ING Vysya Bank Limited was Head of Retail Finance, C band/scale in Finance & Accounts division. ING Vysya Bank was a Private sector bank with ING (foreign promoter) holding 43%. Please refer to ING Vysya Bank's Ann

Adjudication Order in respect of Ms. Gargi Dash in the matter of M/s ING Vysya Bank Limited Page 4 of 17 nor to the Financial Controller. There were only a team of 5 to 6 members as my subordinates in the Bank to whom I was capable of giving directions to regarding report making at a business segment (retail assets and branch banking), branch and product level. There must have been around 50 positions in the Bank at C band/scale and another 50 employees above that scale. Neither was I ever in possession of any unpublished price sensitive information as I was not part of the Financial Reporting team.

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