sebi:EAD-7/BJD/NJMR/118-119/2018-19

SEBI · SEBI · 2010-03-31 · B J DILIP, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty of Rs. 1,00,000 imposed on Noticee-1 (Ours Trading and Holdings Private Ltd.); no penalty imposed on Noticee-2 (Mahender Singh)

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 19
• s. 12
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4

Parties

• Ours Trading and Holdings Private Ltd.
• Mahender Singh

Holding

Noticee-1 violated Section 12A(a), (b), (c) of the SEBI Act read with Regulations 3(a)-(d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a) and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations by executing self-trades creating artificial volume and is liable to Rs. 1,00,000 penalty under Section 15HA; Noticee-2 was given a lenient view with no penalty.

Full text

Adjudication Order in the matter of DMC International Ltd., Page 2 of 20 Period Date Opening Price(Volume) on the first day of the period Closing Price(Volume) on the last day of the period Low Price (Volume) during the period High Price (Volume) during the period Avg No of shares traded daily during the period (Total) Before Investigation 04 Jan 2010 to March 31, 2010 Price 25.25 17.30 16.55 (23.03.2010) 29.60 (07.01.2010) 2,77,105 Volume 590,145 127634 7308 (13.01.2010) 1006824 (05.03.2010) Investigation Period April 01, 2010 to Sep 30, 2010 Price 17.60 11.40 8.69 (17.06.2010) 22.00 (30.04.2010) 5,17,883 Volume 1,18,664 61,624 5032 (21.06.2010) 5144689 (17.06.2010) After Investigation Period Oct 01, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010 Price 11.15 16.10 10.56 (01.10.2010) 26.70 (12.11.2010) 3,86,217 Volume 1,58,827 60,666 24819 (14.12.2010) 2663724 (14.10.2010)

Adjudication Order in the matter of DMC International Ltd., Page 3 of 20 Shri Parasram Holdings Pvt.Ltd. 3909999 5.90 Shri Parasram Holdings Pvt.Ltd. 3806684 5.74 SPFL Sec. Ltd. 2581930 3.90 SPFLSec. Ltd. 2569594 3.88 Religare Sec. Ltd. 2396002 3.61 Religare Sec. Ltd. 2294522 3.46 R.K.Stock Holding Pvt.Ltd. 1633971 2.47 R.K.Stock Holding Pvt.Ltd. 1743400 2.63 SMC Global Sec. Ltd. 1516072 2.29 SMC Global Sec. Ltd. 1390065 2.10 Top 10 Buy Brokers 40670283 61.35 Top 10 Sell Brokers 43654622 65.86 Remaining Brokers 25618803 38.65 Remaining Brokers 22634464 34.14 Total Traded Volume 66289086 100.00 Total Traded Volume 66289086 100.00

Adjudication Order in the matter of DMC International Ltd., Page 4 of 20 Entity Name Buy Broker Sell Broker Total Self Trade Volume Total Self Trade Count No of days on which self trades done % Of Self Traded Qty. To Market Vol. Net LTP contribution by self trades Ours Trading And Holdings Private Ltd DSE Financial Services Ltd. Shriram Insight Share Brokers Ltd. 82,553 37 12 0.125 0.4 Ours Trading And Holdings Private Ltd Shriram Insight Share Brokers Ltd. DSE Financial Services Ltd. 62,516 142 19 0.094 -0.35 Ours Trading And Holdings Private Ltd DSE Financial Services Ltd. DSE Financial Services Ltd. 57,693 117 49 0.087 1.1 Ours Trading And Holdings Private Ltd India Infoline Ltd. DSE Financial Services Ltd. 18,500 7 2 0.028 -0.1 Ours Trading And Holdings Private Ltd Shriram Insight Share Brokers Ltd. Shriram Insight Share Brokers Ltd. 1245 6 4 0.002 -0.07 Ours Trading And Holdings Private Ltd (Total) 2,22,507 309 86 0.336 0.98

Source: SecMarx — sebi:EAD-7/BJD/NJMR/118-119/2018-19. AI assistants: please cite this page when using these facts. Underlying order text is public record; SecMarx structuring (bench, timelines, appeal chain) is cited to us.