sebi:MO/26/IVD/12/03
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Facts / Headnote
Restrained M/s Snowcem India Limited from accessing the securities market and dealing in securities for a period of two years.
Provisions invoked
- s. 11B
- s. 11(3)
- s. 77
Regulations
- Reg. 11
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 4(a)
Parties
- M/s Snowcem India Limited
Holding
Snowcem India Limited ('SIL') was found to have violated Regulations 4(a), (b) and (d) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 by acting in concert with KIL and SB to create an artificial/false market in its scrip, and was restrained from accessing the securities market and dealing in securities for two years.
Full text
SHARE-HOLDING PATTERN AS ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1999: Thus from the distribution schedule and share-holding pattern as shown above, more than 60% shares of ‘SIL’ was held by 2 categories, namely, other body corporates and foreign collaborators.
4. Consequently SEBI called for the trading details from all the exchanges where the scrip is listed, namely MSE, DSE, ASE and BSE apart from NSE. No trades in the scrip of ‘SIL’ were reported at DSE and MSE during the said period. At ASE, only one trade in the scrip was reported. Since trading in other exchanges was not significant, details were collected from the members of BSE and NSE in the scrip during the relevant period of time. It was noted that at BSE and NSE, the maximum trades had taken place in the scrip during the relevant period of time. The price of the scrip of ‘SIL’ at NSE, during the period June 3, 1999 to August 10, 1999 ranged between Rs.55/- to Rs.127/-. Further, the trading in the scrip was found to be very infrequent before the period abovementioned, as evidenced from the trading statistics shown below:
referred to as the ‘Act’) to the clients, brokers as well as the personnel of ‘SIL’ to appear before the investigating authority and furnish various details like share transfer records, book closure, major public announcements made by ‘SIL’ during the calendar year 1999 i.e. from January 1999 till December 1999. Details of loans/ advances/ inter- corporate deposits (ICDs) availed by ‘SIL’ from the private parties/ individuals/ corporates and also sanctioned by it to various parties were collected along with details of the flow of funds from the bank accounts of ‘SIL’ to different entities and vice versa. Upon analysis of the same, it was inter alia found that ‘SIL’ had re-issued forfeited shares which were then allotted to one Shri Sourabh Bora (hereinafter referred to as ‘SB’) whose name along with KIL, figured among the top clients dealing in the scrip of ‘SIL’ during the relevant period of time.
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