sebi:Order/KS/AS/2021-22/12176

SEBI · SEBI · 2021-03-02 · K Saravanan, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation of Regulation 22(3) of SAST Regulations, 2011 established; penalty of Rs 1,00,000 under Section 15HB imposed; lenient view taken on alleged violations of Regulations 29(1) and 30(1)

Provisions invoked

• s. 15A
• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J
• s. 28A
• s. 15F

Regulations

• Reg. 29(1)
• Reg. 29(2)
• Reg. 29(3)
• Reg. 3(1)
• Reg. 30(1)
• Reg. 31A
• Reg. 22(3)

Parties

• Fayaz Usman Faheed

Holding

The Noticee violated Regulation 22(3) by completing the SPA acquisition on November 23, 2016 with a delay of 190 days beyond May 17, 2016. A monetary penalty of Rs 1,00,000 under Section 15HB was imposed, while a lenient view was taken on the Regulation 29(1) and 30(1) disclosure allegations.

Full text

Adjudication order in the matter of SDC Techmedia Ltd Page 2 of 12 2.2 under Section 15HB of the SEBI Act, 1992 the alleged violation of Regulation 22(3) of the SAST Regulations, 2011, by the Noticee. SHOW CAUSE NOTICE, REPLY AND PERSONAL HEARING

Adjudication order in the matter of SDC Techmedia Ltd Page 3 of 12 3. Further, the aforesaid acquisition of shares dated November 23, 2016 resulted in following change in shareholding of Noticee in voting share capital of SDC:

Adjudication order in the matter of SDC Techmedia Ltd Page 4 of 12 In this regard I would like to submit that I did make a disclosure under Regulation 29(1) on 25.11.2016, but my holdings were wrongly classified under the head “promoters” instead of Public which should not have been done as the reclassification under Regulation 31A of the SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015 was completed only on May 17, 2017. A copy of the disclosure made is enclosed as Annexure 1. The corrected disclosure showing my name as Non- Promoter was made on 26.02.2018 and hence the delay of 458 days. Further I also made the annual disclosure on 07.04.2017, however my name was wrongly classified as Promoter instead of Non-Promoter, pending the reclassification of promoter shareholding under Regulation 31A of the SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015 which was completed only on May 17, 2017. A copy of the disclosure made is enclosed as Annexure 2. The corrected disclosure showing my name as Non- Promoter was made on 26.02.2018 and hence the delay of 321 days. With regard to the consummation of the Share Purchase Agreement on November 23, 2016 which resulted in a delay of 190 days, I would like to submit that the shares were acquired with a delay only due to ignorance of the fact that the SPA had to be consummated within 6 months from the date of expiry of the offering period. The delay in compliance was unintentional and without any mala fide intention. It is therefore humbly submitted that there was no delay on my

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