sebi:BM/AO-126/2010

SEBI · SEBI · 2010-03-08 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty imposed on Noticee for violation of Clause 36(1) of Listing Agreement; Noticee absolved of violation of Clause 32.

Provisions invoked

• s. 23
• s. 23E
• s. 23J

Regulations

• Reg. 60

Parties

• Ritesh Properties and Industries Limited (RPIL)

Holding

The Noticee violated Clause 36(1) of the Listing Agreement by failing to promptly notify the BSE upon entering into the joint venture agreement with Ansal, and a penalty of Rs. 1,00,000 was imposed under Section 23E of the SCRA Act. The Noticee was absolved of the allegation of violating Clause 32 of the Listing Agreement as it had more than 50% of revenue from the new line of business at the time of name change.

Full text

2 2008 the price of the scrip rose from `. 82 to `.157, and for the period from January 16, 2008 to January 21, 2008 the price of the scrip of RPIL rose from `.134.55 to `.141.15.

3 SHOW CAUSE NOTICE, REPLY AND PERSONAL HEARING 7. Show Cause Notice No. EAD/EAD-6/BM/10970/2010 dated July 06, 2010 (hereinafter referred to as “SCN”) was issued to the Noticee to show cause as to why an inquiry should not be held against the Noticee and penalty be not imposed under Section 23E of the SCRA Act for the alleged violations specified in the said SCN.

4 projections with APIL through the period of August 06 to Jan 07. Projections are hardly easy to quantify, particularly given the fact that the Company was not a real estate company, but was only tying up as a junior partner with APIL because of surplus factory land available with it. SEBI’s own ICDR Regulations (Regulation 60) for public offers in fact prohibit projections in public offers: “shall not contain projections, estimates, conjectures, etc.” because they tend to be highly subjective. As a non expert, the Company could hardly be able to disclose something which was not easy to define or disclose. The Company did disclose further facts after several exchanges of correspondence and meetings with APIL and thereafter duly intimated the Bombay Stock Exchange. The said information was couriered on January 06, 2007 along with the business plan. The Company submits that at the time of entering into the said agreement, the Company had tentatively discussed the projected revenues and profitability, however, any formal or final valuations had not been made or documented or arrived at amongst the parties for the purpose of disclosures and intimation to the authorities including the BSE. The disclosure on January 8, 2007, has no relation with the preferential allotment to Auster Securities Limited erstwhile known as Vishal Concasts Limited and Godwin Securities Private Limited erstwhile known as Shri Atam Vallabh Poly Plastic Industries Private Limited, which was approved in th

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