sebi:MO/74/IVD/08/04
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Facts / Headnote
M/s. Manorath Investment Ltd. restrained from being associated with the securities market in any manner whatsoever and from buying, selling and dealing in securities for a period of five (5) years with immediate effect.
Provisions invoked
- s. 11
- s. 11(4)
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 11
- Reg. 4(a)
Parties
- Manorath Investment Ltd.
Holding
Manorath Investment Ltd. was found guilty of violating Regulations 4(a), 4(b) and 4(c) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995. It was restrained from being associated with the securities market and from buying, selling and dealing in securities for five years with immediate effect.
Full text
Page 2 of 19 per day. In view of the above, NSE noted that certain entities, suspected to be associates of VML, may be attempting to artificially increase the price of the scrip. The scrip was placed under suspension by NSE from April 5, 2000 onwards.
Page 3 of 19 04-Jan-00 718.45 718.45 718.45 718.45 200 05-Jan-00 775.95 775.95 770 770 3900 06-Jan-00 831.6 831.6 713 714 1000 07-Jan-00 710 771 710 737 2300 10-Jan-00 748 795 730 795 2100 11-Jan-00 858.6 858.6 835 858.5 700 12-Jan-00 870 919 850 850 400 13-Jan-00 870 918 870 918 1000 14-Jan-00 925 990 878 982.5 800 Over a period of one and half months, the scrip has traded for only 29 days and the total number of shares traded was only 16,600. Thus, the average number of shares traded per day works out to 572. On many of the days only 100 shares have been traded signifying merely single trades on those days. During this period, the price of the scrip has increased from Rs.440/- to Rs.982.50 indicating a rise of over 120% in 29 trading days. The low number of trades as well as lack of trading on many days indicates lack of any trading interest in the scrip. From the steep increase in traded price on thin trading volumes it appears that the trades are not genuine and entered into, may be, with a manipulative intent. Period III (March 1, 2000 to April 4, 2000) Date Opening Price High Price Low Price Closing Price Traded Quantity 01-Mar-00 1695 1695 1695 1695 200 02-Mar-00 1830.6 1830.6 1785 1785 1700 03-Mar-00 1765 1900 1765 1900 300 06-Mar-00 1752 1775 1752 1775 500 08-Mar-00 1725 1725 1725 1725 100 09-Mar-00 1805 1805 1805 1805 100 10-Mar-00 1795 1795 1795 1795 100 14-Mar-00 1823 1823 1823 1823 100 15-Mar-00 1900 1900 1810 1810 300 16-Mar-00 1954.8 1954.8 1954.8 1954.8 1 21-M
Page 4 of 19 30-Mar-00 3345.85 3345.85 3345.85 3345.85 1 31-Mar-00 3613.5 3613.5 3613.5 3613.5 1 03-Apr-00 3902.6 3902.6 3902.6 3902.6 1 04-Apr-00 4214.85 4214.85 4214.85 4214.85 411 The price of the scrip has increased from Rs. 1695/- to Rs.4214.85 during March 1, 2000 to April 4, 20000 i.e. an increase of about 150%. During this period the scrip has traded for only 20 days. On most of the trading days, there was only 1 trade in the scrip. On many days only 1 share was traded. Despite lack of trading interest as signified by few number of trades daily, the price of the scrip was increasing by about Rs.200-300 daily during March 16, 2000 to April 4, 2000. It may be noted that NSE had on March 21, 2000 given a notice of suspension of the scrip from April 5, 2000 for non-compliance of certain clauses of listing agreement. Thus the price of the scrip has shown an increasing trend despite the notice of suspension given by NSE.
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