sebi:BM/AO-40/2012

SEBI · SEBI · 2012-01-16 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Noticee found guilty; penalty of Rs. 7,00,000 imposed under Section 15HA

Provisions invoked

Regulations

Parties

Holding

The Noticee Ashesh Agarwal along with connected entities created artificial volume by reversal/circular trades and influenced price through new high price and above-LTP trades in RCFL, violating Regulations 3, 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e) and (g) of PFUTP Regulations, 2003, and is liable to penalty of Rs. 7,00,000 under Section 15HA of SEBI Act.

Full text

Page 2 of 26 5,258 shares per day. There were no trades executed in the scrip of RCFL at DSE and UPSE during the investigation period.

Page 3 of 26 manipulated the price of the scrip which led to manipulative, fraudulent and unfair trade in the scrip during the investigation period.

Page 4 of 26 most respectfully submitted that even the prices of shares of those companies on the basis of which SENSEX has been made not always fluctuate as per PERCENTAGE WISE ratio of SENSEX for example that if on a particular day SENSEX decreased by 2% then it is not necessary that prices of shares of all the 30 companies (which creates SENSEX) shall be decreased by 2%. In these circumstances, price volume analysis given in paragraph no. 2 of notice and price volume data on the basis of SENSEX given at Annexure 2 is not fair as well as not applicable in the present matter. 3- That the contents of paragraph no. 3 are matter of record which shall be supported by credible evidence. 4- That with reference to contents of paragraph no. 4, it is most respectfully submitted that as per the details available on website, the total no. of shares of M/s Rich Capital and Financial Services Ltd. is 72,52,800 out of which I have purchased only 47400 shares and sold only 36845 shares as stated by yourself. The total purchased quantity shall be 0.63% and total sold quantity shall be 0.05% of total shares. Moreover, which is sold and purchased during a long period of 70 days. In this regard, it is humbly submitted that it can never be violation of any provision of law. 5- That with reference to paragraph no. 5 of notice, it is most respectfully submitted that as stated in notice during the investigation period price of script increased by Rs. 71.25 out of which the applicant contributed on

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