sebi:MO/6/ID/10/03

SEBI · SEBI · 2003-03-26 · A.K. Batra, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Certificate of registration of Doogar and Associate Securities Ltd. suspended for a period of seven days, effective from three weeks of the date of the order.

Provisions invoked

• s. 11
• s. 19
• s. 12

Regulations

• Reg. 7
• Reg. 199
• Reg. 13(2)
• Reg. 13
• Reg. 11
• Reg. 16
• Reg. 6
• Reg. 15
• Reg. 200
• Reg. 25
• Reg. 2(f)

Parties

• Doogar and Associate Securities Ltd.

Holding

DASL, a member of NSE, acted as a sub-broker for its client in the scrip of Munga Holdings through a DSE broker without obtaining separate registration as a sub-broker with SEBI, in violation of Section 12 of the SEBI Act, Rule 3 of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Rules, 1992, and SEBI Circular SMD/Policy/CIR/3/98. The certificate of registration of DASL was suspended for seven days.

Full text

be permitted to appear before the enquiry officer on March 05, 2003, Mr. Doogar failed to appear on the said date. Thereafter the enquiry officer granted an opportunity to DASL to inspect certain documents on March 20, 2003. Shri Balveer Chowdhary, the authorized representative of DASL appeared before the enquiry officer on March 20, 2003 for the said purpose. 1.6 Thereafter, DASL sent a letter dated March 26, 2003, in which they inter-alia, denied committing any breach of any of the terms and conditions and / or provisions of SEBI Act and / or the Rules, Regulations or Guidelines framed by SEBI Act. They denied that they had violated Clause A (5) of Code of Conduct read with Regulation 7 of the Broker Regulations, Section 12 of SEBI Act and / or Rule 3 of SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Rules, 1992. They further contended that they had traded on behalf of their client in the normal course of business without suspicion of any unwarranted movement in the price of the scrip and that the client for whom the transactions were undertaken had been dealing with them for several years and in view of the same, there was no reason to believe any wrong dealings on his part. It was submitted that they had not been engaged in any manipulative, fraudulent or other offensive activities ever since they started acting as a stock broker. They stated that they were already registered as a stock broker with SEBI and were a member of NSE (Regd. No. INB 230876132) prior to their dealings in t

broker without registration, the enquiry officer concluded that DASL had dealt as a sub broker for 3600 shares of Munga during the relevant period, the value of which, at that point of time was Rs.32,795, thereby earning a brokerage of Rs.400/-. The Enquiry Officer recommended that the registration of DASL, Member of NSE be suspended for a period of one month on the ground that DASL had violated Clause A(5) of Code of Conduct read with Regulation 7 of the SEBI Brokers Regulations and Section 12 of the Act as well as Rule 3 of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Rules, 1992. 3.2 Thereafter, a notice dated June 16, 2003 was issued to DASL calling upon them to show cause in terms of Regulation 13 (2) of the said Regulations as to why penalty as recommended by the enquiry officer should not be imposed upon them and to reply to the said notice within 15 days of the receipt of the notice failing with SEBI would proceed ex parte. DASL was also asked to indicate whether they desired a personal hearing. In reply to the same, DASL vide their letter dated July 03, 2003 requested for a personal hearing and indicated that their reply if any, to the show cause notice would be given at the time of such hearing. Pursuant to the same, DASL was granted a hearing which though scheduled for August 27, 2003 was on their request, adjourned to September 08, 2003. Same was and later rescheduled to September 12, 2003. 3.3 On September 12, 2003, Shri Dinesh Agwani, Advocate, Shri M.K. Doogar and

2(f) of the Broker Regulations. Further, the obligations of the stock brokers are much more than that of the sub broker. Yet both in the investigation as well as in the enquiry report, the concerned authorities had failed to establish that DASL has failed to fulfill its obligation which it was required to do as stock broker.

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