sebi:MO/64/IVD/2/04

SEBI · SEBI · 2003-07-22 · A.K. Batra, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Prohibited from dealing in securities for a period of one year

Provisions invoked

• s. 11
• s. 19
• s. 12

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 6
• Reg. 4(a)
• Reg. 4(b)
• Reg. 5

Parties

• M/s Sai Dhwani Investment Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

M/s Sai Dhwani Investment Pvt. Ltd. was found guilty of violating Regulation 4(a) and Regulation 4(b) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995, and of acting as an unregistered sub-broker in violation of Section 12 of the SEBI Act read with Rule 3 of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Rules, 1992, and was prohibited from dealing in securities for one year.

Full text

1.1 Investigations revealed that Shri Kamlesh Jitendra Shroff, son of Shri Jitendra Ratilal Shroff, promoter of VB Desai and nephew of Shri Pradip Ratilal Shroff, Managing Director of VB Desai was the main person behind the trading activity in the scrip throughout all the settlements during the investigation period. He had used a number of brokers, sub brokers (both registered and unregistered) as well as acquaintances to buy and sell in the scrip of VB Desai in the market, thereby creating illusion of trading, artificial volume and price rise in the scrip. 1.2 M/s Sai Dhwani Investment Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Sai Dhwani”), had purchased shares of ‘VB Desai’ from Maxworth Finlease, the broking outfit of Shri Kamlesh Shroff, in various off-market transactions and sold through others. SHOW CAUSE NOTICE 2.0 A show cause notice dated July 22, 2003 was issued to Sai Dhwani whereby the

finally heard on October 29, 2003 at 5.00 p.m. M/s Sai Dhwani was represented by Mr. Pramod Kadam. He submitted that they had nothing to say more than what was stated in the statements recorded during investigation.

5.3 I find from the above that M/s Sai Dhwani had sold the shares in the market for its client Shri Kamlesh Shroff and had entered into off-market transactions with M/ s Maxworth Finlease solely for the purpose of hiding the identity of its client. The fact that M/s Sai Dhwani had offloaded the shares in the market on behalf of Shri Kamlesh Shroff which he had purchased in off-market transactions with M/s Maxworth Finlease, the broking outfit of Shri Kamlesh Shroff, which means that indirectly M/s Sai Dhwani was involved in the transaction of shares for the purpose of manipulating the price thereby inducing the sale / purchase of securities. The fact that all the above activities were done by M/s Sai Dhwani to fulfill the manipulative intent of M/s Kamlesh Shroff indicates that he had full knowledge of the nature of the activities which were in violation of the regulations. 5.4 Regulation 4(a) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 reads as follows: “No one shall effect, take part in, or enter into, either directly or indirectly, transactions in securities, with the intention of artificially raising or depressing the prices of securities and thereby inducing the sale or purchase of securities by any person” Therefore, I find M/s Sai Dhwani is guilty of violating Regulation 4(a) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995. Also M/s Sai Dhwa

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