sebi:BM/AO-9/2011
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Facts / Headnote
Violation established; penalty of Rs. 1,50,000 under section 15HA and Rs. 50,000 under section 15HB imposed
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 3
Parties
- Ahilya Commercial Pvt. Ltd.
Holding
The Noticee 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 Stock Brokers Code of Conduct by executing cross deals and synchronized trades creating artificial volume and price in CFML, and is liable to a total monetary penalty of Rs. 2,00,000.
Full text
Page 2 of 16 on February 25, 2005, i.e. an increase of 608% within period of 13 months 20 days. 2. On analysis of the trading data obtained from CSE it was observed that the transactions of two brokers viz: Ahilya Commercial Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter after refereed to as the “Noticee”) and Dinesh Kumar Lodha (hereinafter after refereed to as the “Lodha”) constituted 87.42% of the volume in the scrip of CFML. The role of the brokers and the entities who had traded in the scrip of CFML was scrutinized. It was alleged that the brokers, through cross deals and synchronized trades, had manipulated the price and created artificial volume in the scrip during the investigation period.
Page 3 of 16 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 16 • We deny that there has been any involvement of our artificially inflating the price or creating false volumes through continuous self deals as alleged or otherwise or at all. We have conducted ourselves diligently and have carried our instructions received from our clients, albeit after due observance and compliance of the applicable provisions, regulations, rules and laws of land. • Trades in the scrip were on the basis of instructions received from clients and after due compliance of the applicable provisions relatable to a Stock Broker. We have no other relationship with any of our clients other than a “Client-Broker Relationship”, on which basis, we earn our brokerage. We have not violated any of the established and laid down norms applicable to a Stock Broking and maintained our records correctly and diligently and also conducted ourselves fairly. So whatever the allegations made on us is unholy nexus is incorrect and denied and disputed. • We repeat that we have only acted in pursuance of instructions received by us from our clients and were personally not involved in any alleged manipulation of price or volume. It is, further, stated that in respect of trading we have charged and received brokerage as entitled under law and there is no question of any unjust enrichment in any form or manner whatsoever.
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