sebi:IVD/WOL/AO/DRK/ASG/EAD3-58/2009
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Facts / Headnote
Violation established; consolidated monetary penalty imposed
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 31
Parties
- Shree Hari Hira Stock Broking (P) Ltd. (formerly known as Harikishan Hiralal)
Holding
The Adjudicating Officer held that Shree Hari Hira Stock Broking (P) Ltd. violated Regulations 4(1) and 4(2)(a) and (e) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003 and Clauses A(1) to (5) of the Stock Brokers Code of Conduct by executing synchronized/structured non-genuine trades manipulating price and volume in WOL. A consolidated penalty of Rs. 6,00,000 was imposed under Sections 15HA and 15HB of the SEBI Act, 1992.
Full text
Page 2 of 14 alert. The period of investigation by BSE was January 01, 2003 to October 30, 2003. The major Observations of BSE were that the major buying and selling clients in the scrip were connected /related with each other, with WOL and a certain group of entities called the Parklight Group. WOL appears to a Parklight group company. The volumes in the scrip were created artificially amongst these entities and they contributed to almost 80 per cent of the total market volumes during the entire period of investigation. Self trades, circular trading, synchronized/ structured trades and reversal of trades amongst various other members were also observed with almost negligible deliverable position thus contributing to the volumes in the scrip. Based on the above facts, SEBI conducted an investigation relating to buying, selling or dealing in the shares of WOL for the period from January 01, 2003 to October 23, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Investigation Period’).
Page 3 of 14 high of Rs 3.15 on October 10, 2003 and then came down to Rs 1.89 on October 30, 2003. 6. The IR observed that in the pre Stock Split Period, between January 01, 2003 and March 12, 2003 the scrip was traded on only two days i.e. and all these shares were purchased by 4 members of the Wadhwa family. The IR noted that these trades were carried out solely for the purpose of creating artificial volume. The Wadhwa family members further purchased shares on May 26, 27, 28, 2003, June 02, 2003 and on June 03, 2003 through Parklight Securities Ltd., a Parklight group company and the counter party sellers were Galaxy Infosoft Ltd. and Genus Commu-trade through Sree Hari Hira Stock Broking (P) Ltd. (then known as Harikishan Hiralal, hereinafter referred to as ‘the noticee’) as their stock broker. The noticee executed sell trades for 3,80,300 shares for the client Genus Commu-trade and 5, 67,900 shares for the client Galaxy Infosoft Ltd. during this period.
Page 4 of 14 8. The IR also observed that during the post stock split period various set of stock brokers either in own account or for their clients were involved in price manipulation. One of such stock broker was the noticee.
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