sebi:CO/30/IES/05/2003

SEBI · SEBI · 2002-05-13 · G. N. Bajpai, Chairman, SEBI

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Facts / Headnote

No penalty imposed; cautionary direction to be careful in future while trading in the aforesaid manner

Provisions invoked

• s. 11B
• s. 4(3)
• s. 11

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4
• Reg. 199

Parties

• M/s Prabodh Artha Sanchay Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

SEBI held there was insufficient evidence that M/s Prabodh Artha Sanchay Pvt. Ltd. created an artificial market in Cyberspace Ltd. in violation of Regulation 4(d) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices) Regulations, 1995. No penalty was imposed, but PAS was directed to be careful in future while trading in the aforesaid manner.

Full text

entities has been named as related parties acting in concert with the promoters of Cyberspace Ltd. (CCL). Prabodh Artha Sanchay Pvt. Ltd. is one of them. In the investigation report submitted by BSE it has been stated that M/s Prabodh Artha Sanchay Pvt. Ltd. had contributed 0.34% to the gross purchases and 5.99% to the gross sales of the scrip during the period of the report. The investigations have revealed that transactions have been done by M/s Prabodh Artha Sanchay Pvt. Ltd. in extremely large quantities in the scrip of Cyberspace Ltd. The fact that M/s PAS have constantly bought and sold shares on a daily basis without holding the same makes it clear that their dealings were not in the nature of investment. M/s PAS had contributed more than 10% of the daily volume in the scrip on 57 out of 75 days on which they had sold the shares in the scrip and contributed 10% or more of the daily volume in 34 out of 60 days on which they purchased the shares on the Exchanges. Apart from the trades on the Exchanges, M/s PAS had also purchased shares directly from the front companies of the promoter of CCL in off market deals. 1.1 It was found in the course of investigations that at BSE, payments of M/s PAS at times had also not been made before the pay-ins for the purchases made through CCL. The investigations further reported that M/s PAS was acting in concert with Shri Arvind Johari to support the price of the scrip and create an artificial market in the scrip. 2.0 A show cause noti

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