sebi:CO/20/ISD/09/2004
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Facts / Headnote
Warning issued to Woodstock Securities Pvt Ltd and Wood Stock Broking Pvt Ltd; enquiry officer's recommended 3-month suspension rejected as excessive.
Provisions invoked
- s. 4(3)
- s. 11
- s. 250
Regulations
- Reg. 13(4)
- Reg. 13(2)
Parties
- Woodstock Securities Pvt Ltd
- Wood Stock Broking Pvt Ltd
Holding
The Chairman held that Woodstock Broking and Woodstock Securities did not indulge in synchronized trading in GTB shares on 11.04.2000, but violated Clause A(2) of the Code of Conduct by failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence. A warning was issued instead of the 3-month suspension recommended by the enquiry officer.
Full text
Page 2 of 22 Date Broker Price Buy qty Sell qty Buying Client Selling Client 11.04.00 Woodstock Broking Pvt. Ltd. 83 500000 0 Suresh Jajoo 11.04.00 Woodstock Securities Pvt. Ltd. - 1500000 0 Vimla and Suresh Jajoo - BSE Selling Broker Rate Sale Qty Sell
Page 3 of 22 (b) That on 11.4.2000 the scrip of GTB opened at Rs.78 and that the price had risen to Rs.79 after few trades. He found that at 11:20 am Woodstock Broking (P) Ltd. placed a buy order for 5,00,000 shares of GTB @ Rs.83 which immediately absorbed all the pending sale orders and took the price of the share to Rs.83 and the remaining quantity matched the order of IBSL at that price. Thus by the above trade of Woodstock Broking took the price of GTB from 79 to 83 during the period from 11.20 to 12.51. (c) That on April 11, 2000 there was quite a high volume in the scrip of GTB in both BSE as well as NSE, and that 52,51,900 shares of GTB were traded on NSE and 50,86,363 shares on BSE the highest recorded on that day. IBSL was the major seller on that day. The entire quantity of GTB shares sold by ICICI Broking was purchased by a few broking entities including the said brokers. (d) That Ms. Suresh and Vimla Jajoo, through Woodstock Securities purchased 20,00,000 shares of GTB and that the said trades in GTB shares were synchronized. The order log of these trades in both NSE as well as BSE as under: BSE Selling Broker Rate Sale Qty Sell
Page 4 of 22 ICICI Brokerage 83 250000 11:25:07 Latin Manharlal Securities 83 250000 11:25:29 22 ICICI Brokerage 83 500000 11:26:35 Hem Securities 83 500000 11:26:40 5 ICICI Brokerage 83 500000 12:02:29 Triumph Securities 83 500000 12:02:35 6 ICICI Brokerage 83 500000 12:02:57 Milan Mahindra Securities 83 500000 12:03:09 12 ICICI Brokerage 83 750000 12:51:26 Woodstock Securities 83 750000 12:51:33 7 ICICI Brokerage 83 500000 13:19:15 Ind Sec Securities 83 500000 13:19:36 21 ICICI Brokerage 83 250000 13:42:01 Triumph Securities 83 250000 13:41:57 4 NSE Date Buy
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