sebi:MO/34/IVD/12/03
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Facts / Headnote
Shri Sunil Kumar directed to disassociate from securities market and not to buy, sell or otherwise deal in securities for a period of 1 year
Provisions invoked
- s. 11B
- s. 11
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 11
Parties
- Shri Sunil Kumar
Holding
Shri Sunil Kumar manipulated the price of TIL shares and created an artificial market in violation of Regulation 4(a) and (b) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995, and was restrained from the securities market for 1 year.
Full text
An analysis of the memberwise trading details in the scrip during the said period revealed that the top four trading members accounted for 97 % of the gross traded quantity and 100% of the net purchase quantity. In view of the above, settlementwise and clientwise trading details were sought from the four members who included Emmkay Share and Stock Brokers Ltd., Prabhat Investments Ltd., Argus Stock Broking Ltd. and Anvee Share Brokers Pvt. Ltd.
4.1.2 I note that the ledger account of M/s Supreme Investment as furnished by M/s Argus Stock Broking Ltd. shows Shri Sunil Kumar as their client. Further the client ledger of Shri Sunil Kumar in the books of M/s Supreme Investments shows credit and debit entries on account of transactions in the scrip of TIL. I further note that in their statements, Shri Utkal Ranjan Mishra, authorized representative of Argus Stock Broking Ltd. and Shri Salil Aggarwal, Proprietor of Supreme Investments, have stated that Supreme Investments dealt in the shares of TIL on behalf of Shri Sunil Kumar.
c. indulge in any act which results in reflection of prices of securities based on transactions that are not genuine trade transactions; d. enter into a purchase or sale of any securities, not intended to effect transfer of beneficial ownership but intended to operate only as a device to inflate, depress, or cause fluctuations in the market price of securities ; e. pay, offer or agree to pay or offer, directly or indirectly, to any person any money or money’s worth for inducing another person to purchase or sell any security with the sole object of inflating, depressing, or causing fluctuations in the market price of securities."
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