sebi:Order/EAD-1/SBM/JR/2021-22/12811

SEBI · SEBI · 2016-07-04 · Suresh B Menon, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Adjudication proceedings disposed of / cannot be proceeded with

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15I
• s. 248
• s. 560

Regulations

• Reg. 4(1)
• Reg. 3(a)

Parties

• Mankind Vintrade Private Limited (name changed to Kurjha Vintrade Private Limited)

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held that the adjudication proceedings initiated against the Noticee (Mankind Vintrade Private Limited, renamed Kurjha Vintrade Private Limited) cannot be proceeded with because the Noticee's name was struck off from the Register of Companies and the company was dissolved as on August 24, 2018.

Full text

Page 2 of 8 In the matter of Mystic Electronics Limited to as “Noticee”) under the provisions of section 15 HA of Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “SEBI Act”) for its alleged violation of the provisions of regulation 3(a) (b), (c), (d) and regulation 4(1), 4(2)(a) and (e) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as “PFUTP Regulations”). APPOINTMENT OF ADJUDICATING OFFICER

Page 3 of 8 In the matter of Mystic Electronics Limited connected entities, including the Noticee increased the scrip price of MEL by placing the buy orders in the scrip at a price higher than the last traded price and also by absorbing the sell orders that were available in the market which were placed at a higher price than the Last Traded Price (LTP) in MEL. Once the scrip price of MEL reached the desired level, the preferential allottees exited and the preferential allottees have allegedly made a profit of Rs. 39 crore.  It is observed that MEL made a preferential allotment of 92,30,000 shares to 48 entities on June 7, 2013 to raise an amount of Rs. 56.06 crore and the shares were under lock-in period for one year upto June 06, 2014. It is observed that the shares were allotted on preferential basis initially at Rs. 25 per share and subsequently, the same was revised to Rs. 60.74 (based on 26 week average price). Post lock-in period, it was observed that 14 allottees who were allotted shares in the preferential allotment have either fully or partly sold their holdings in MEL i.e. 86,71,828 shares were sold in patches (i.e these shares were sold after the stock split period and approximately 9.30% of the shares allotted through the preferential allotment were sold by the preferential allottees for a value of Rs. 39 crore). Once the preferential allottees started to exit after they sold the shares, the scrip price of MEL started to decline substantially.  During the inves

Page 4 of 8 In the matter of Mystic Electronics Limited carrying out such trades repeatedly, the connected entities established price higher than the last traded price to increase the price of the scrip during the price rise patch.  It is alleged that the connected entities, including Noticee have contributed to the price rise of Rs. 1550.1 (net LTP) compared to the market Net LTP of Rs. 489.45. Further, it is observed that only 35 connected entities (of 60 entities) have contributed to positive LTP of Rs. 2777.80 which is 47% to market Positive LTP (Rs. 5875.95) in 2642 trades for a total volume of 11,44,294 shares. Further, the connected entities, bought 11.55 lac shares which is 40.79% of the market volume (price rise-Patch I) and contributed to 47% of market positive LTP.  It is observed that the Noticee is one of the top 10 connected entities who contributed to the Positive LTP. The details regarding the trades of the Noticee in MEL during the investigation period is as under: Client Name Operator Net LTP Positive LTP Negative LTP Zero LTP % of +ve LTP to total market +ve LTP Net LTP (in Rs.) Traded qnty No. of trades +ve LTP (in Rs.) Traded qnty No. of trades Negative LTP (in Rs.) Traded qnty No. of trades Zero LTP traded quantity No. of trades Mankind Vintrade Pvt. Ltd. Devesh Upadhyay 27 5000 5 34 825 1 -7 350 2 3825 2 0.58

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