sebi:BOARD/SEBI/2/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Show Cause Notice against NSDL disposed of; proceeding not continued against NSDL
Provisions invoked
- s. 11
- s. 15
- s. 19
- s. 16
- s. 3(3)
- s. 26(1)
- s. 8(2)
- s. 7(1)
Regulations
- Reg. 36
- Reg. 38(1)(a)
- Reg. 38(1)
Parties
- National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL)
Holding
The Show Cause Notice issued to NSDL was disposed of and the proceeding against NSDL was not continued, as SEBI did not find NSDL liable for the charges of failing to verify issuer data, ensuring lock-in compliance, breaching the Tripartite Agreement, or failing to exercise its byelaw-making powers under Section 26(1) of the Depositories Act.
Full text
Page 2 of 24 banned from holding any office of responsibility in any company associated with the securities market for the same period. The order also required Shri Dalmia and the company to deposit a sum of Rs.630 cr. in a separate escrow account till the completion of the investigation and to buy 1.30 cr. shares of the company and deposit the same in a separate demat account.
Page 3 of 24 shares allotted on October 5, 2000 on October 17, 2000, forty lakh shares allotted on October 24, 2000 on October 31, 2000 and the remaining thirty lakh shares allotted on December 14, 2000 on December 19, 2000. (iii) The company also made an allotment of 40 lakh shares to one of its related entities on January 12, 2001 and issued the shares in physical form since NSDL did not credit these shares to the demat account of allottees. (iv) The shares were dematerialized as fully paid up even though they had only been partly paid up. (v) The 30 lakh shares issued under the ESOP scheme were transferred to a trust operated by the promoter Shri Dalmia and were transferred to various entities other than the employees and without any lock in period. (vi) These unlisted shares were introduced in the market.
Page 4 of 24 issued as per law. Depository is a mechanism to ensure that these shares (when issued in demat form) are credited to the investor’s account as required by the issuer. Its role is akin to that of a Post Office which delivers the shares to the addressee when they are issued in physical form. The Post Office is not expected to check the legality of issuance. The Depositories Act or the Regulations cast no obligations on the Depository to undertake any such exercise. In the absence of such provisions, the conclusions in the report are unwarranted.
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