sebi:MIRSD/ISRL/DRK/ASG/EAD3-313/11-2012
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Facts / Headnote
Penalty imposed on the noticee for violations of SEBI Act, Depositories Act, RTI & STA Regulations, and D&P Regulations
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 12
- s. 15J
- s. 19C
- s. 14
- s. 19G
Regulations
- Reg. 13
- Reg. 55
- Reg. 54(5)
- Reg. 54
Parties
- [noticee name not specified in excerpt]
Holding
The Adjudicating Officer imposed a consolidated penalty of Rs. 3,00,000 on the noticee for violations of the SEBI Act, 1992, Depositories Act, 1996, RTI & STA Regulations, 1993, and D&P Regulations, 1996, arising from deficiencies in its functioning as a Registrar to an Issue and Share Transfer Agent.
Full text
Page 2 of 25 SEBI (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) Regulations, 1993 (hereinafter referred to as ‘RTI & STA Regulations’) and the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as ‘D& P Regulations’) and SEBI circular dated November 05, 1993 alleged to have been committed by the noticee.
Page 3 of 25 4.4 Further, the cases furnished by the Inspection Report had not been identified by the noticee through its procedures, but because of investor complaints. Thus, the above also evidences the wrong validation process and absence of a proper system to unearth wrong credits, at the noticee’s end. 4.5 In many applications, PAN details provided by the applicants were not matching with the details as provided while opening of the beneficiary account, but the noticee had considered these for allotment. 4.6 Multiple allotments had been made to applicants with the same PAN.
Page 4 of 25 4.15 The noticee did not have a dedicated e-mail id for complaints related to share transfer agent activities as on the date of inspection. Also, there was no auto response system, hence the investor did not come to know whether his grievance has been received by the noticee or not.
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