sebi:ORDER/BD/BM/2019-20/5835-5839

SEBI · SEBI · 2019-03-01 · B J Dilip, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalties imposed on Noticee 1, Noticee 3 and Noticee 4 totalling Rs 1,15,00,000; charge against Noticee 2 held not established with nil penalty.

Provisions invoked

• s. 15A
• s. 15
• s. 19
• s. 15H
• s. 15J
• s. 15F
• s. 28A

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 10
• Reg. 8
• Reg. 37
• Reg. 3(2)
• Reg. 10(6)
• Reg. 10(1)(d)
• Reg. 28(1)

Parties

• Shri Abhay Ram Dahiya
• Shri Pankaj Dahiya
• Shri Amardeep Singh Dahiya
• M/s Polo Hotels Ltd

Holding

Noticee 1 (Abhay Ram Dahiya) and Noticee 3 (Amardeep Singh Dahiya) violated Regulation 3(2) and Regulation 10(6) of SAST 2011 and Noticee 4 (Polo Hotels Ltd) violated Regulation 28(1) of LODR 2015, attracting monetary penalties, while the Regulation 3(2) charge against Noticee 2 (Pankaj Dahiya) was held not established.

Full text

as Noticee02), as per DLOF filed by Abhay Ram Dahiya and associates with SEBI. However, they failed to make the open offer as mandated under Regulation 3(2) of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011(hereinafter referred to as SAST 2011). They also failed to file report pertaining to allotment of equity shares on October 07, 2014 pursuant to Conversion of Compulsory Convertible Preference Shares (CCPS) as per scheme of arrangement duly approved by the Hon’ble High Court of Punjab. Therefore, Noticee 1 and 2 allegedly violated Regulation 10(6) of SAST 2011.

6. Vide letter dated June 24, 2019 the Noticees requested for 1 month time for filing the reply. Vide letter dated July 06, 2019 Noticees 02 denied all the allegations made against him and submitted as under: -I am extremely shocked and surprised that SEBI still considers me as a part of promoter group of Polo even though I am reclassified from Promoter group w.e.f. March 2016. Even in subsequent shareholding patterns filed by PHL, my name does not appear under promoter category. It is only on receipt of SCN that it has come to my knowledge that allegedly Polo did not obtain approval from stock exchange w.r.t. my reclassification as a promoter of Polo. In this regard, I state that I have sought data/documents/information/clarification w.r.t. the aforesaid matter of reclassification. Presently, I am awaiting their response w.r.t data regarding reclassification. - Further, I submit that I have not acquired any shares of Polo during the date mentioned by SEBI and the same is also mentioned by SEBI in its SCN. As I understand from the SCN, only Mr. Abhay Ram Dahiya and Mr. Amardeep Singh Dahiya have acquired shares, so, I cannot be alleged to be in violation of Regulation 3(2) of SAST Regulation. Therefore an opportunity of personal hearing may be granted to me as per the convenience of your kind selves.

07, 2019 the Noticee was informed that the pending of proceedings before the tribunal has no role in the proceedings before the Adjudicating Officer and hearing was rescheduled on October 18, 2019. However, the Notice refused to appear for hearing and vide letter dated October 15, 2019 requested to pass the appropriate judicious orders with respect to the taking on record the documents/complete set of pleadings/orders passed by the NCLT which were submitted on September 23, 2019 with your office so that we could apprise the NCLT about your indulgence in a sub-judice matter.

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