sebi:Order/BM/JR/2023-24/27485

SEBI · SEBI · 2021-11-12 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation established; penalty of Rs 5,00,000 imposed under Section 15HA, decided ex-parte

Provisions invoked

• s. 11B
• s. 11
• s. 15
• s. 19
• s. 15H
• s. 15J
• s. 15F
• s. 28A

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4(1)
• Reg. 3(a)
• Reg. 26

Parties

• Krishna Kumar Rungta HUF

Holding

The Noticee violated Regulations 3(a), (b), (c), (d), 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of PFUTP Regulations, 2003 by executing 14 non-genuine reversal trades in 5 illiquid stock option contracts creating artificial volume, and a monetary penalty of Rs 5,00,000 under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act, 1992 was imposed.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of Krishna Kumar Rungta HUF in the matter of trading in Illiquid Stock Options at BSE P a g e | 2 of 20 Kumar Rungta HUF (PAN – AAKHK0530M) (hereinafter referred to as the “Noticee”) was one of the various entities who indulged in execution of reversal trades in stock options segment of BSE during the IP. Such trades were alleged to be non-genuine in nature and created false or misleading appearance of trading in terms of artificial volumes in stock options and therefore were alleged to be manipulative, deceptive in nature. In view of the same, SEBI initiated adjudication proceedings against the Noticee for alleged violation of the provisions of Regulations 3(a), (b), (c), (d), 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as “PFUTP Regulations, 2003”).

Adjudication Order in respect of Krishna Kumar Rungta HUF in the matter of trading in Illiquid Stock Options at BSE P a g e | 3 of 20

Adjudication Order in respect of Krishna Kumar Rungta HUF in the matter of trading in Illiquid Stock Options at BSE P a g e | 4 of 20 a) The Noticee had executed alleged non genuine trades in 5 contracts, wherein all the trades of Noticee in the said contracts were allegedly non- genuine trades. b) No. of alleged non-genuine trades of the Noticee had significantly contributed to total no. of trades from the market in the above contract, as 5% - 30.77% of the trades that happened in the said contracts were due to non-genuine trades executed by the Noticee. c) 100% of volume generated by Noticee in the above contracts was alleged to be artificial volume and further, the percentage of alleged artificial volume generated by the Noticee in the above contract to the total volume from the market in said contract was in the range of 2.99% - 22.73%. Therefore, the Noticee allegedly generated artificial volume in the above contracts.

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