sebi:BS/AO-16/2008

SEBI · SEBI · 2006-09-20 · Biju. S, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty of Rs. 3,00,000 imposed on Enpee Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. for violating Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e), (g) and (n) of FUTP Regulations 2003

Provisions invoked

• s. 15

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 200

Parties

• Enpee Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held that Enpee Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. violated Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e), (g) and (n) of the FUTP Regulations 2003 by simultaneously buying and selling shares through two different brokers in a synchronized manner, and imposed a penalty of Rs. 3,00,000 under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act.

Full text

2 NOTICE AND REPLY 4. A Show Cause Notice (hereinafter referred to as ‘SCN’) A&E/BS/77153/2006 dated September 20, 2006 was issued to the noticee in terms of Rule 4 of SEBI (Procedure for Holding Inquiry and Imposing Penalties by Adjudicating Officer) Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the “Rules”) seeking its reply as to why an inquiry should not be held for the violation alleged to have been committed by it.

3 f. The noticee is not holding any shares of this company however it has four thousand shares in its demat account as and by way of security. g. Details of off market transaction in the scrip were with M/s DPS shares and securities pvt. Ltd., and were for 39600 shares during the above mentioned period. h. The demat account statement for the period from 1st January 2004 to 30th September 2004 was also submitted with the reply. i. The noticee further submits that they have only sold shares through M/s Harikishan Hiralal in the market. These trades were in open market. None of the shares were purchased through open market.

4 4. Prohibition of manipulative, fraudulent and unfair trade practices (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of regulation 3, no person shall indulge in a fraudulent or an unfair trade practice in securities. (2) Dealing in securities shall be deemed to be a fraudulent or an unfair trade practice if it involves fraud and may include all or any of the following, namely:- (a) indulging in an act which creates false or misleading appearance of trading in the securities market; (b) dealing in a security not intended to effect transfer of beneficial ownership but intended to operate only as a device to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in the price of such security for wrongful gain or avoidance of loss; (e) any act or omission amounting to manipulation of the price of a security; (g) entering into a transaction in securities without intention of performing it or without intention of change of ownership of such security; (n) circular transactions in respect of a security entered into between intermediaries in order to increase commission to provide a false appearance of trading in such security or to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in the price of such security;

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