sebi:BM/AO-110-111/2011

SEBI · SEBI · 2009-11-10 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty imposed on both noticees for fraudulent and unfair trade practices

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 12
• s. 15J
• s. 209(1)
• s. 209(6)

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 3(b)

Parties

• Shri. N. Narayanan
• Shri. V. Natarajan

Holding

The Noticees, as Whole Time Directors of PSTL, violated Section 12A of the SEBI Act and Regulations 3(b), 3(c), 3(d), 4(1), 4(2)(a), 4(2)(e), 4(2)(f), 4(2)(k) and 4(2)(r) of the PFUTP Regulation by causing publication of false and misleading financial results, and are liable for penalty under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act. A penalty of Rs. 50,00,000 was imposed on Shri. N. Narayanan and Rs. 40,00,000 on Shri. V. Natarajan.

Full text

2 books of accounts and showed inflated profits and revenues in the financial statements and lured the general public to invest in the shares of the company based on such false financial statements. It was observed that Shri. N. Narayanan and Shri. V Natarajan were the Whole Time Directors of PSTL during the relevant time and has been alleged to have caused to publish false and misleading financial results of the company.

3 alleged that PSTL did not maintain proper books of accounts of the Company and did not cooperate with the investigation by failing to produce various documents and records required during investigation despite issue of several summons.

4 11. Shri. N Narayanan vide September 15, 2010 made further submissions as given below: ¾ I have been a full time director of the Company. However, I was looking only after the HR functions. ¾ All subjects which are brought to the Board Meetings only are known to me and I have never involved myself either in the operations or in Finance and Accounts. ¾ I would like to submit that I was not involved in the finance and accounts and there was a professional finance head reporting to Mr. PS Saminathan our MD. I have relied on the concurrence and approval of accounts by finance division head and our MD, purely on good faith. ¾ I also deny the charge that I pledged the shares at artificially inflated prices of PSTL script based on inflated financial revenues. I also deny that I availed any loan for the Company by way of loan against shares.

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