sebi:MO/3/ISD/09/03
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Facts / Headnote
Debarment of Punjab National Bank, Shahibaug, Ahmedabad Branch from carrying out activities as a Banker to an Issue for a period of two months, effective after 3 weeks from the date of the order.
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 13(2)
- Reg. 13
- Reg. 16
Parties
- Punjab National Bank, Shahibaug, Ahmedabad Branch
Holding
SEBI debarred Punjab National Bank's Shahibaug, Ahmedabad Branch from acting as a Banker to an Issue for two months for violating the Code of Conduct by accepting share applications after the closure of the Maha Chemicals Ltd. public issue and failing to exercise due diligence.
Full text
Registrars to the Issue. This despite the fact that the Registrars, Nipar Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. (Nipar), was having a branch office in the same city itself. By handing over the stockinvests to MCL, it was possible for the stockinvests to be cancelled without realisation. By accepting applications after closure of issue from persons apparently connected to the promoters and from sister concern of MCL, the bank had enabled the issue to be deemed fully subscribed and get listed, and enabled the promoters to garner a larger chunk of shares in the public issue.
against the erring officials. They stated that as the issue of stock invest and payment of stock invest were dealt with at different department / officers, the error could not be detected at that time.
detected the mistake that it was a transfer cheque of the branch itself and not a clearing cheque, and returned the cheque to the branch and the same was debited to Superior Chemicals Ltd. (SCL) account on 10.5.94. They stated that there was sufficient credit balance in the account of SCL’s and its sister concerns subsequent to the said cheque dated 7.4.94.
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