sebi:BM/AO-5/2010

SEBI · SEBI · 2008-03-27 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation established; total penalty of Rs.5,00,000 imposed

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 7
• Reg. 3

Parties

• Mukesh Dokania & Co.

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held that Mukesh Dokania & Co. violated regulations 3, 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e), (g), (n) and (o) of PFUTP and clauses A(1), (2), (3) and (4) and B(4)(a) of the Code of Conduct for Stock Brokers and imposed a total monetary penalty of Rs.5,00,000 under sections 15HA (Rs.4,00,000) and 15HB (Rs.1,00,000) of the SEBI Act.

Full text

Page 2 of 15 Rs.17.6 to Rs.84/- during the period February 9, 2005 to March 31, 2005 2. On analysis of the trading data obtained from CSE it was observed that the transactions of six brokers viz: Mukesh Dokania & Co. (hereinafter after refereed to as the Noticee/MDC), Rajendra Prasad Shah, Ahilya Commercial Pvt. Ltd., Bubna Stock Broking Services Ltd., N.M. Lohia & Co. and Shyam Lal Sultania, constituted 62% of the volume in the scrip of SCL. The role of the brokers and the entities who had traded in the scrip of SCL was scrutinized. It was alleged that through collusion with the brokers, shares of SCL were transacted in such a manner that led to creation of artificial volumes in the scrip and was designed to create a false market leading to significant price movement in the scrip which lacked presence of any sort of fundamentals.

Page 3 of 15 4. Shri V.S. Sundaresan was appointed as Adjudicating Officer vide order dated March 27, 2008 under section 15 I of Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “SEBI Act”) read with rule 3 of SEBI (Procedure for Holding Inquiry and Imposing Penalties by Adjudicating Officer) Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Rules’) to inquire into and adjudge the alleged violations of provisions of PFUTP and Brokers Regulations committed by the Noticee.

Page 4 of 15 • We can know the total number of shares traded by us but we cannot know the percentage volume of trading done by us in the CSE Exchange. We have already provided you the Sauda Book of our firm in Soft Copy & Hard Copy, where you can go through that not even single sauda have done in Self Code or Proprietary Code. All the sauda have done on behalf of client. Details of client with sauda book have already been provided to you. I as a proprietary firm & my relatives have not done single sauda in SCL Company. So no one can say that we have the role in raising the prices of the script. • As there is very few Brokers trading in the platform of CSE might be 10 or 12 Brokers, so the sauda can be matched altogether. • As we have both Buyer Client & Seller Client, so we always place sauda in the CSE terminal. We never do any off market transactions. Sauda prices are given by the client & done on behalf of client. We have never done any sauda in self code. • We have placed sauda in “Client” and “Cli” code because in CSE terminal at that time there was no provision for change of client code as we are provided in ‘NSE’ & ‘BSE’ terminal. So if by chance we do any transactions in wrong client code, we as a broker have to face lot of difficulty in CSE terminal. • Transactions were done on behalf of client & as per their instructions of prices & quantity of shares. We have not done single sauda in self code or in any of our family code. • We have never encouraged any client to d

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