sebi:MO/54/IVD/1/04

SEBI · SEBI · 1993-11-18 · A.K. Batra, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Certificate of registration of M/s Index Finlease Services Ltd suspended for a period of ten days, effective on expiry of three weeks from the date of the order.

Provisions invoked

• s. 19

Regulations

• Reg. 7
• Reg. 13(4)
• Reg. 13(2)
• Reg. 29(1)
• Reg. 23
• Reg. 17(1)(k)

Parties

• M/s Index Finlease Services Ltd

Holding

The certificate of registration of Index Finlease Services Ltd was suspended for ten days for failing to execute client agreement, maintain order placement time and confirmation on contract notes and thereby failing to exercise due care and diligence.

Full text

Regulations, 2002 and submitted his report on August 29, 2003. The findings of the Enquiry Officer are as follows: The client agreement was not obtained by IFSL and the duplicate copies of the contract note was not maintained, which is in violation of 15(2)(b) of SCR Rules, 1957 and Regulation 17(1)(k) of SEBI(Stock Broker and Sub Broker ) Regulations, 1992. Margin was not collected, which is in violation of SEBI circulars SMD/SED/Cir/93/23321 dated November 18, 1993, SMDRP/POLICY/CIR/35/98 dated December 04, 1998 and SMDRP/POLICY/CIR-07/99 dated February 04, 2000. Not maintained a record of time when the client had placed the order, which is in violation of circular dated February 11, 1997. SHOW CAUSE NOTICE: 2.0 On consideration of the Enquiry Report, a show cause notice was issued to IFSL under Regulation 29(1) of SEBI(Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Rules and Regulations, 1992 read with Regulation 13(2) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Procedure for Holding Enquiry by Enquiry Officer and Imposing Penalty) Regulations, 2002 against IFSL vide letter dated September 09, 2001. In the show cause notice, IFSL was alleged to be guilty of violating the provisions of SCR Rules 1957, SEBI(Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Rules and Regulations, 1992 and SEBI Circulars dated November 18, 1993, December 04, 1998, February 04, 2000 and February 11, 1997. It was also mentioned therein that the Enquiry Officer had recommended a minor penalty of suspension of the certificate of

transactions with IFSL in the shares of ITC were also produced along with its reply. It was further stated by it that the client registration form which had been obtained before it allowed Shri Panwar to trade in ITC shares, could not be collected when the BgSE had sought the details of trading in Prosoft. The reason stated by IFSL was that Shri Panwar was not responding to the phone calls of IFSL at such point of time and also was not available in the address given to it. 2.2. It was submitted by IFSL that Shri Panwar had traded through it not only in the shares of Prosoft. IFSL submitted that settlement of ITC shares had been made by Shri Panwar by way of cheques (details of which were also given). With regard to not obtaining details of the depository account of Shri Panwar, it was submitted that at the time of obtaining client registration form during January 2000, only few shares were under compulsory demat trading. It was also stated by IFSL that client’s demat account number was insisted upon only in cases where transactions of shares under compulsory demat mode was involved. IFSL also submitted that since Shri Panwar had squared off the ITC transactions, the details of the demat account was not insisted upon. Regarding the client agreement, IFSL submitted that being a new member at the BgSE, they had inquired with the other members about the prevalent practice and they were told that obtaining client registration form with photographs and bank account details was enou

same in the system is one and the same. IFSL also submitted that such time which is automatically recorded in the system would be stored in their back office. Some files, they stated, had got corrupted, which included the file containing time of placing of order. Although, IFSL had requested the exchange to provide it with the backup, it said, the details given by exchange did not contain the time of placement of order and hence, it was unable to produce the same to the Enquiry Officer. IFSL, along with its reply enclosed a statement certified by BgSE regarding the detailed transactions in the shares of Prosoft from December 27, 2000 to January 19, 2001 which indicated order entry time and date. 2.5. IFSL further submitted that there was no provision for reflecting the time of placing the

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