sebi:IVD/ID1/PKN/AP/17812/04

SEBI · SEBI · 2004-08-12 · Madhukar, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Restrained Mr. Abhishek Khare from accessing the securities market and prohibited him from buying, selling or dealing in securities for a period of six months.

Provisions invoked

• s. 11
• s. 11(4)
• s. 19

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4(a)

Parties

• Abhishek Khare

Holding

Mr. Abhishek Khare was restrained from accessing the securities market and prohibited from buying, selling or dealing in securities for six months for aiding and abetting circular/reversal trades that created artificial volume in the scrip of Kwality Dairy (India) Limited.

Full text

1.1 Securities and Exchange Board of India (hereinafter referred to as “SEBI”) conducted investigations into the dealings in the scrip of Kwality Dairy (India) Limited (hereinafter referred to as “KDIL” ) for the period from February 5, 2003 to June 6,

3.2 l observe that KDIL suffered loss for the years ended March 31, 2000, March 31, 2001, March 31, 2002 and March 31, 2003. KDIL earned a net profit of Rs.1.06 million on turnover of Rs.34.48 million during the quarter ended on June 30, 2003. Investigations revealed that the total volume traded during the period of investigation was 3403923 shares. During the period February 5, 2003 to March 31, 2003, the scrip was infrequently traded with a very small volume and from April 2, 2003 there was a price rise with increasing volumes. From April 2, 2003 to April 11, 2003, there was price rise in the scrip from Rs.3.05 to Rs.11.25 and from April 29, 2003 to June 6, 2003 the price rose from Rs.11.70 to Rs.46.95. It was observed that out of the total volume, 3288016 shares were traded during the period April 23 to June 6, 2004 when some of the entities were involved in trading by entering into circular / reversal of trades. Investigation revealed that during the period April 23, 2003 to June 6, 2003, around 25% of the volume of trading was due to circular trades / reversal of trades among different groups of clients and brokers. The clients and the member-brokers of each of these groups bought and sold the shares among themselves by squaring off the deals often the same day through the same brokers(s) in a circular manner. 3.3 I note from the analysis of trading that during the period 23rd April, 2003 to 6th June, 2003 around 25% of the total volume of trading was due to circular tra

3.6 I observe that both these clients successively bought and sold the shares to each other several times intra day, thus not taking or giving delivery during the period of investigation. I observe that these deals continued for 32 trading days and involved a total of 731764 shares constituting around 22% of the volume traded during the period of investigation. 3.7 I further observe that all the orders for the said trades were placed within 0-34 seconds of each other. Out of a total of 4239 trades of MPSE Sec.Ltd., 4116 trades were executed between these two brokers and clients. 3.8 Trading details of Mr. Abhishek Khare in the scrip of Kwality Dairy (India) Ltd. are as under: Date Bought Qty. Bought by Client (Broker ) Bought From Client (Broker ) Sold Qty. Sold by Client (Broker ) Sold to Client (Broker ) 23.4.03 to 6.6.03 731764 Sanjay Biyani (Sanjay Biyani ) Abhishek Khare (Sunil Shares and Stocks ) 731764 Sanjay Biyani (Sanjay Biyani ) Abhishek Khare (Sunil Shares and Stocks ) 3.9 I have also considered the integrated Trade and Order Log – Self Trade done by the member MPSE Securities Ltd. with regard to the circular trading/ reversal of trades which show that order quantity, price and timings of placing orders on both the buy and sell sides matched with each other, as was annexed to the show cause notice as Annexure V. I observe that where the several other member-brokers were also found to be active during this period, the orders placed by the brokers trading on behalf

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