sebi:Order/GR/KG/2020-21/8020-8022
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Facts / Headnote
Violations held established against Noticees No.1 to 3; penalty directed to be paid
Provisions invoked
- s. 15A
- s. 15
- s. 12A
- s. 15H
- s. 28A
- s. 23A
- s. 21
- s. 23
- s. 23E
- s. 23H
- s. 446
- s. 23D
- s. 446(1)
- s. 33(5)
- s. 53
- s. 44
Regulations
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 16
- Reg. 3(a)
- Reg. 30
Parties
- Surana Corporation Limited (Noticee No.1)
- Shri Vijayraj Surana / Vijayaraj Surana (Noticee No.2)
- C.S. Prithviraj Jain (Noticee No.3)
Holding
The Adjudicating Officer held that SCL falsified gold stocks and related-party transactions, failed to disclose the DRI raid/seizure and violated audit-committee and financial-reporting norms, with its Managing Director vicariously liable and the compliance officer liable for audit-committee non-reporting, attracting monetary penalty.
Full text
Adjudication Order in the matter of Surana Corporation Limited Page 2 of 26 prima facie indicated violation of Clauses 36, 41, 49 and 50 of the Equity Listing Agreement (2000) (hereinafter referred to as “ELA”) read with section 21 of the SCRA and Regulations 3 (a), (c) , (d) and 4 (1), (2) (e), (k) and (r) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to the Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (“the PFUTP Regulations”), read with section 12A(a), (b) and (c) of the SEBI Act, 1992 by SCL (hereinafter referred to as “Noticee No.1”); Clause 49(I)(D)(ii) and Clause 49(V) read with Clause 41 and 50 of ELA by Shri Vijayraj Surana (hereinafter referred to as the “Noticee no. 2”) and Clause 49 (VII)(ii) of the ELA by C.S. Prithviraj Jain (hereinafter referred to as the “Noticee No. 3”).
Adjudication Order in the matter of Surana Corporation Limited Page 3 of 26 4. Shri Vijayaraj Surana (“Noticees No. 2”/ “VS”) vide separate letters dated December 12, 2019 and January 21, 2020, inter alia submitted as follows:
Adjudication Order in the matter of Surana Corporation Limited Page 4 of 26 g. Section 23H of the SCRA cannot be invoked against VS since for the same cause of action the company, i.e., SCL is punishable under section 23E of the SCRA.
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