sebi:CO/104/ISD/08/2003

SEBI · SEBI · 2000-07-11 · G.N. Bajpai, Chairman, SEBI

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Facts / Headnote

M/s. Newfin Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. prohibited from buying, selling and dealing in securities, in any manner, directly or indirectly, for a period of five years with immediate effect

Provisions invoked

• s. 4(3)
• s. 11(4)

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4

Parties

• M/s. Newfin Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

M/s. Newfin Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. created a false and misleading appearance of trading in the scrip of Zodiac Clothing Company Ltd. in violation of Regulation 4(a), (b), (c) and (d) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to securities market) Regulations, 1995 and was therefore prohibited from buying, selling and dealing in securities directly or indirectly for five years.

Full text

3.4 It was also noted that NFSPL has entered into following off market deals with its another group company namely M/s Vivenasri Financial Services Ltd. (VFSL) : 3.5 From the above, it is observed that during the relevant period NFSPL bought 3,85,417 shares and sold 1,47,850 shares from the market making net market purchases of 2,37,567 shares. Further NFSPL bought 46,279 shares from VFSL and sold 2,68,346 shares to VFSL in off deals during the relevant period making net off market sales of 2,22,067 shares.

3.8 From price volume data of the scrip of Zodiac it is observed that the total market volume traded on BSE and NSE was of 18,60,702 shares (4,05,551 shares on BSE and 14,55,151 shares on NSE ) during the relevant period. Out of this, NFSPL along with VFSL and HPSPL had purchased a total number of 17,96,093 shares of Zodiac, which account for 96.53% of shares traded. Further, this group sold a total number of 17,00,507 shares of Zodiac which account for 91.39% of shares traded on BSE and NSE. As a matter of fact NFSPL’s group has a gross turnover of 34,96,600 shares on BSE and NSE which account for 93.96% of the gross turnover of NSE and BSE (37,21,404 shares) in the scrip of Zodiac.

It may be mentioned here that N024 was the client code of NFSPL and 19902 was the client code of VFSL. b) On October 25, 2000, 24,050 shares of Zodiac were traded on NSE only. Out of these, 23,750 shares were traded by way of Structured deal. NFSPL sold through Canara Securities (member NSE) while HPSPL bought through 25D0202 300 76.8B 12:58:49 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 25D0780 300 76.8S 12:58:49 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 26D0202 100 76.8B 12:58:49 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 26D0780 100 76.8S 12:58:49 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 27D0202 200 76.1B 1:23:51 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 27D0780 200 76.1S 1:23:51 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 28D0202 100 76.1B 1:23:51 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 28D0780 100 76.1S 1:23:51 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 39D0202 800 75.5B 2:06:29 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 39D0780 800 75.5S 2:06:29 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 40D0202 400 75.9B 2:09:58 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 40D0780 400 75.9S 2:09:58 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 41D0202 400 75.9B 2:09:58 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 41D0780 400 75.9S 2:09:58 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 42D0202 400 75.9B 2:09:58 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 42D0780 400 75.9S 2:09:58 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 43D0202 400 75.9B 2:09:58 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 43D0780 400 75.9S 2:09:58 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 44D0202 100 75.9B 2:09:58 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 44D0780 100 75.9S 2:09:58 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 46D0202 400 75.9B 2:24:24 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 46D0780 400 75.9S 2:24:24 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 47D0202 400 75.9B 2:24:24 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 47D0780 400 75.9S 2:24:24 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 48D0202 300 75.9B 2:24:24 PMD0780 Y VF (b) 48D0780 300 75.9S 2:24:24 PMD0202 N024 NF (s) 53D0202 100 75.6B 2

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