sebi:Order/BM/UR/2022-23/17293

SEBI · SEBI · 2022-05-04 · Barnali Mukherjee, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

No violation established; no penalty imposed

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 3(a)
• Reg. 2(1)

Parties

• Roshan Jha

Holding

The Noticee Roshan Jha was not established to be part of the Manish Rathi group circular trading scheme and did not violate regulations 3(a), (b), (c), (d), 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e) and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations, attracting no penalty under section 15HA of the SEBI Act.

Full text

2 2019 remanded the case to Adjudicating Officer on the grounds that sufficient service was not made upon Roshan Jha (hereinafter referred to as “Noticee”). The SAT observed that:

3 APPOINTMENT OF ADJUDICATING OFFICER 4. Subsequent to the aforesaid SAT order, the undersigned was appointed as Adjudicating Officer under Section 15-I of the SEBI Act read with Rule 3 of the Adjudication Rules vide order dated May 04, 2022 to inquire into and adjudge under section 15HA of the SEBI Act, the aforesaid alleged violations against the Noticee.

4 off market transaction details and copy of investigation report(along with annexure) have been provided to the Noticee. In this regards AR was informed vide e-mail dated May 20, 2022 that as agreed in our telephonic conversation, you may refer to the aforesaid documents provided to you in the same matter in respect of Manju Mutha. AR to the Noticee vide e-mail dated May 20, 2022 sought details of off-market transaction executed in between the Noticee and the other entities provided by SEBI to NSDL. Vide email dated June 15, 2022, the details sought by the AR to the Noticee was provided. The AR to the Noticee vide letter dated June 17, 2022 submitted that a. In the first excel file i.e. “Inter Depository Debit roshan”, column containing names of target first holder has not been provided and only column for target Client IDs and target DP Ids have been provided and thus names of entities cannot be found. Since, the column containing names of target first holder has not been provided, the Noticee is unable to identify the names of parties with whom the off-market transactions had taken place in 2009. Thus, the notice cannot make his submission on the same till he is not being provided the column containing names of target first holder. b. On perusal of the second file i.e. Roshan off market client to client, it is revealed that the Noticee had executed off market transactions with 12 entities in the scrip of Octant Interactive Technologies Ltd. Out of the said 12 entities, SEB

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