sebi:Order/BM/DS/2024-25/30581

SEBI · SEBI · 2017-10-23 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation partly established; penalty of Rs. 3,00,000 imposed on PRB Securities Private Limited

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J
• s. 28A

Regulations

• Reg. 199
• Reg. 6
• Reg. 17
• Reg. 26
• Reg. 9

Parties

• PRB Securities Private Limited

Holding

Non-maintenance of attendance and operation of absent employees' terminals by other approved users for proprietary trades were held not to violate the cited provisions, but extension of a terminal to Harsh Vardhan Sureka, who was not an approved user on inspection date, violated Clauses A(1), A(2) and A(5) read with Regulation 9 and Regulation 26(xix), attracting Rs. 3,00,000 penalty under Section 15HB.

Full text

Adjudication Order in the matter of PRB Securities Private Limited Page 2 of 18 alleged to have been committed by the Noticee and the corresponding regulatory provisions are given in the table below: Table 1 Sr. No. Alleged Violations (Summarized) Regulatory Provisions 1 Non-maintenance of attendance details of all employees / dealers. Clauses A(1), A(2) and A(5) of the Code of Conduct in Schedule II read with Regulation 9 of Stock Brokers Regulations, 1992 2 Trades placed from terminals allocated to absent employees BSE Notice no. 20171023-30 dated October 23, 2017

Adjudication Order in the matter of PRB Securities Private Limited Page 3 of 18 SHOW CAUSE NOTICE, REPLY OF THE NOTICEE AND HEARING

Adjudication Order in the matter of PRB Securities Private Limited Page 4 of 18 is no violation of Regulation 9 of Stock Brokers Regulation 1992 as Clauses A(l), A(2) and A(5) (about Integrity, Exercise of due skill and care, and Compliance with statutory requirements) of Code of Conduct in Schedule II read with Regulation 9 of Stock Broker Regulations 1992 are meant to be construed in the context of Stock broking business only for which a registration has been granted under Regulation 6 of the Stock Brokers Regulations 1992. In this context, non-maintenance of attendance records does not lead to lack of integrity, exercise of due skill and care, and compliance with statutory requirements. In this regard, the Noticee relied and quoted from the judgement of Honble Securities Appellate Tribunal in the case of SMC Global Securities Ltd v SEBI (Appeal no 176 of 2011 dated 25 November 2011).

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