sebi:MO/144/IVD/01/06

SEBI · SEBI · Madhukar, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Minor penalty of suspension of certificate of registration for a period of 15 days imposed, effective after expiry of three weeks from the date of order

Provisions invoked

• s. 19

Regulations

• Reg. 7
• Reg. 4
• Reg. 199
• Reg. 13
• Reg. 5
• Reg. 2

Parties

• M/s. NVS Brokerage Private Limited

Holding

The Broker was found guilty of violating the Code of Conduct prescribed for Stock Brokers and a minor penalty of suspension of its certificate of registration for 15 days was imposed.

Full text

Home » Enforcement » Orders » Orders of Chairman/Members Enforcement Enforcement▼ ORDER Under regulation 13 (4) of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Procedure for Holding Enquiry by Enquiry Officer and Imposing Penalty) Regulations, 2002 against M/s. NVS Brokerage Private Limited, INB.010995139, Member, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai in the matter of trading of the scrip of M/s. Vision Technology India Limited 1.0 Background 1.1  Vision Technology India Limited (herein after referred as “VTIL”) came out with a public issue in the year 1994 and was listed on The Stock Exchange, Mumbai (hereinafter ref as “BSE”), Madras Stock Exchange (MSE), Ahmedabad Stock Exchange (ASE) and Jaipur Stock Exchange (JSE) apart from Bangalore Stock Exchange (BgSE), being the exchange of the company. 1.2 At the BSE, it was observed that the price of the scrip increased from Rs.4 as on 12 October 1999 to Rs.14 on 30 November 1999 and to a peak of Rs.650 on 7 March 2 thereafter there was steep fall in the price of the scrip of VTIL. BgSE had imposed a special margin of 100% in the scrip of VTIL with effect from 13 January 2000 till 31 2000. 1.3 Securities and Exchange Board of India (hereinafter referred to as “SEBI”) conducted an investigation to look into any possible violations of the provisions of Securities and Ex Board of India (Prohibitions of Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Markets) Regulations 1995 (hereinafter referred to as “FUTP Regulations”) and of Securi Exchange Board

1.0 Background 1.1 Vision Technology India Limited (herein after referred as “VTIL”) came out with a public issue in the year 1994 and was listed on The Stock Exchange, Mumbai (hereinafter referred to as “BSE”), Madras Stock Exchange (MSE), Ahmedabad Stock Exchange (ASE) and Jaipur Stock Exchange (JSE) apart from Bangalore Stock Exchange (BgSE), being the regional exchange of the company. 1.2 At the BSE, it was observed that the price of the scrip increased from Rs.4 as on 12th October 1999 to Rs.14 on 30th November 1999 and to a peak of Rs.650 on 7th March 2000 and thereafter there was steep fall in the price of the scrip of VTIL. BgSE had imposed a special margin of 100% in the scrip of VTIL with effect from 13th January 2000 till 31st March 2000. 1.3 Securities and Exchange Board of India (hereinafter referred to as “SEBI”) conducted an investigation to look into any possible violations of the provisions of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibitions of Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Markets) Regulations 1995 (hereinafter referred to as “FUTP Regulations”) and of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Stock Brokers and Sub-Brokers) 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “Broker Regulations”). 1.4 During the above mentioned investigation conducted by SEBI it was observed that M/s. Vivenasri Financial Services Ltd. (herein after referred as “VFSL”) and M/s. Harsha Pranav Securities Pvt. Ltd. (herein after referred as “HPSPL”) were predominant traders in th

Trading details of VFSL done through the member are as given under in Table – 1: Table – 1 Sett. No. Purchases Sales Gross Net 45 28, 700 7, 700 36, 400 21, 000 46 23, 500 23, 500 47, 000 0 47 0 24, 800 24, 800 -24, 800 48 15, 500 15, 500 31, 000 0 50 6, 000 1, 600 7, 600 4, 400 51 3, 300 0 3, 300 3, 300 52 18, 100 500 18, 600 17, 600 Total 95, 100 73, 600 168, 700 21, 500 Trading details of HPSPL done through the member are as given under in Table - 2: Table – 2 Sett. No. Purchases Sales Gross Net

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