sebi:BM/AO-146/2011

SEBI · SEBI · 2010-11-09 · Barnali Mujherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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The Noticee, Swastika Investment Mart Ltd., is alleged to have aided and abetted manipulative synchronized and structured trading in Asian Star Company Limited scrip through its client Sandeep Jain, thereby failing to conduct its business with due skill, care and diligence, and is liable for monetary penalty under section 15HA of the SEBI Act for contravention of Schedule II of the Stock Brokers Regulations.

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_____________________________________________________________________________________ Swastika Investment Mart Ltd. in the matter of Asian Star Company Limited                                              Page 2 of 28  allegedly  connected  to  each  other  had  indulged  in  circular/reversal  synchronized  trading in such a manner that led to creation of artificial volume in the scrips.

_____________________________________________________________________________________ Swastika Investment Mart Ltd. in the matter of Asian Star Company Limited                                              Page 3 of 28  in  Schedule  II    of  the  SEBI  (Stock  Broker  and  Sub‐broker)  Regulation,  1992  (hereinafter referred to as “Stock Brokers Regulations”). Consequently, the Noticee  is liable for monetary penalty under section 15HA of Securities and Exchange Board  of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SEBI Act’).

_____________________________________________________________________________________ Swastika Investment Mart Ltd. in the matter of Asian Star Company Limited                                              Page 4 of 28  mentioned by you for manipulative transactions in any scrip. The investigation  authorities also didn’t find any financial or business transactions between us and  the alleged parties. We never had any relation/ communication/ association for  alleged manipulated transactions with any party.  (d) That  all  the  pay  in  obligation  of  our  client  Mr.  Sandeep  was  made  by  him  depositing  the  cheques  at  Udaipur  and  as  per  his  confirmation,  we  had  given  credit to his account. Due to depositing of cheques at out station, we could not  detect the third party cheques, we were in impression that all the cheques are  being deposited from the client from his own account. At that time we were not  having  any  software  or  system  to  detect  the  third  party  cheques,  hence  this  mistake  occurred  at  our  end,  and  we  explained  the  same  to  investigating  authorities.  (e) That there were only some procedural lapses at our end like acceptance of third  party cheques sue to failure in tracking third party deposits of pay in obligations.  Now  we  have  pt  some  procedure  in  our  system  to  track  the  third  party  transactions.  We  are  now  getting  soft  copy  of  the  instruments  on  mail  or  fax  before giving any credit to resp

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