sebi:BM/AO-138/2013

SEBI · SEBI · 2010-12-03 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 imposed on the Noticee under Section 15A(b) of the SEBI Act, 1992 for failure to make timely disclosures under Regulation 13(4) read with 13(5) of the PIT Regulations, 1992.

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 13
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 199
• Reg. 4
• Reg. 13(4)
• Reg. 24

Parties

• Noticee (Promoter, Chairman and Managing Director of PSTL)

Holding

The Noticee violated Regulation 13(4) read with 13(5) of the PIT Regulations, 1992 by failing to disclose changes in shareholding exceeding 25,000 shares on multiple dates between October 24, 2008 and December 5, 2008, making disclosure only on December 19, 2008. A penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 was imposed under Section 15A(b) of the SEBI Act, 1992.

Full text

2 4. As per the shareholding pattern of PSTL as on September 30, 2008, it was observed that the Noticee was holding 62,12,956 shares, accounting for 21.97% of the share capital of the company.

3 10. The Noticee vide letter dated December 20, 2011 requested time till January 15, 2012 to reply to the SCN. The Noticee’s request was acceded to vide letter dated December 26, 2011 and the Noticee was informed that no further extension to submit his reply would be given after January 15, 2012. Consequently, vide letter dated January 18, 2012 the Noticee sought to avail for consent proceeding.

4 24.8852% of shares belonging to Mr. Nirmal Kotecha as inter-se transfer which will increase the holding of the undersigned from 21.97% to 46.88%. d) Further on November 27, 2008, both the relevant Stock Exchanges were informed of the acquisition as reflected in the increase of 1.41% in the relevant forms and also disclosed that the acquisition price shall be Rs. 200/- or the Market price whichever is less. e) Further on January 6, 2009, I have submitted a report of transaction filing under Regulation 3-IE to SEBI clearly disclosing the transaction which has increased the undersigned stakes from 21.97% to 24.45% and in the same form it can be observed the inter-se the seller’s stake has reduced from 24.92% to 21.99% reflecting the corresponding decrease in the seller and the corresponding increase in the buyer (the undersigned) and in part-II of the said submission, it is clearly mentioned that share acquisition has taken place on various dates upto December 5, 2008 and complete compliance has been done by way of submission.

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