sebi:Order/MC/DS/2019-20/7324

SEBI · SEBI · 2019-08-08 · Maninder Cheema, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty imposed on Noticee for failure to segregate client funds and securities

Provisions invoked

• s. 12
• s. 23J
• s. 23D
• s. 23I

Parties

• M/s Indira Securities Pvt Ltd

Holding

The Noticee was found to have violated Section 23D of SCRA read with SEBI Circular no. SMD/SED/CIR/93/23321 dated November 18, 1993 by failing to segregate client funds and using credit balance clients' funds for debit balance clients, and a penalty of Rs. 10,00,000/- was imposed.

Full text

Adjudication Order in the matter of M/s Indira Securities Pvt Ltd Page 2 of 17 SHOW CAUSE NOTICE, REPLY AND HEARING 3. Show Cause Notice No. EAD-5/MC/DPS/20290/2019 dated August 08, 2019 (hereinafter be referred to as, the “SCN”) was served upon the Noticee under Rule 4(1) of the Adjudication Rules to show cause as to why an inquiry should not be held and penalty be not imposed against it under Section 23D of SCRA for the alleged violations of Section 23D of SCRA read with the provisions of SEBI Circular no. SMD/SED/CIR/93/23321 dated November 18, 1993.

Adjudication Order in the matter of M/s Indira Securities Pvt Ltd Page 3 of 17 8. During inspection, it was observed that in 31 out of 75 cases, Noticee has misused client funds. Misuse of funds ranges from 1% to 32% of funds of credit balance clients. Funds of credit balance clients have been used for purpose of debit balance clients, as per details are given below:- Sl. No. Date Total (client bank balance+ settlement a/c balance Cash + FD+ funded BG+ Securities Aggregate value of Credit balance of all clients (as per trial balance after adjustments) Aggregate value of debit balances of all clients (as per trial balance after adjustments) Mis- utilization (if G<0) G/C*1 00 Funds Misused for Debit Balance Clients % Funds Misused for Debit Balance Clients Date A B C D G=(A+B)-C 1 01-Apr-15 17132430.00 188046557 120259825.57 95687718.60 84919161.32 - - - 2 13-Apr-15 2107589.09 195724129 163890371.29 192866464.01 33941346.79 - - - 3 21-Apr-15 6387196.01 195511122 153749500.00 159766791.19 48148818.44 - - - 4 02-Jun-15 5630760.74 197603236 143446849.13 153257021.55 59787147.96 - - - 5 10-Jun-15 3560333.80 154357126 139727629.31 161244847.87 18189830.94 - - - 6 25-Jun-15 3428557.15 147452858 155943072.07 149749148.51 -5061657.00 3% 5061657.00 3% 7 06-Jul-15 4422949.32 146611787 132836561.05 141551773.42 18198175.46 - - - 8 22-Jul-15 5128664.99 148280162 151903524.67 203760219.88 1505302.32 - - - 9 28-Jul-15 4261985.81 153630278 145492060.82 174452848.63 12400202.84 - - - 10 18-Aug

Adjudication Order in the matter of M/s Indira Securities Pvt Ltd Page 4 of 17 Sl. No. Date Total (client bank balance+ settlement a/c balance Cash + FD+ funded BG+ Securities Aggregate value of Credit balance of all clients (as per trial balance after adjustments) Aggregate value of debit balances of all clients (as per trial balance after adjustments) Mis- utilization (if G<0) G/C*1 00 Funds Misused for Debit Balance Clients % Funds Misused for Debit Balance Clients Date A B C D G=(A+B)-C 38 14-Oct-16 4768032.27 142192341 146647230.7 231966108.1 313142.71 - - - 39 19-Oct-16 4284317.2 152250857 153190026.9 254372155.7 3345147.76 - - - 40 28-Oct-16 6843032.5 142723899 194024431.3 266711598.3 -44457499.88 23% 44457499.88 23% 41 23-Nov-16 6290584.27 146663476 161530885.3 204507895.9 -8576824.90 5% 8576824.90 5% 42 28-Nov-16 5213228.18 148657905 171159362.6 236384216.3 -17288229.26 10% 17288229.26 10% 43 30-Nov-16 31567873.7 147277209 196816954.5 283893860.8 -17971871.88 9% 17971871.88 9% 44 06-Dec-16 44778590.9 149272037 194000824.8 180300457.6 49803.40 - - - 45 09-Dec-16 15862515.1 148653399 163699398.4 191406669.4 816515.69 - - - 46 02-Jan-17 4255740.93 145858234 99167986.03 152172732.7 50945988.93 - - - 47 05-Jan-17 6752600.24 145732428 132868075.7 190367341.4 19616952.91 - - - 48 14-Mar-17 43596691.7 140421231 220250493.6 207513842.8 -36232571.18 16% 36232571.18 16% 49 16-Mar-17 4094768.49 140771557 206612030.3 250811926 -61745704.75 30% 61745704.75 30% 50 23-Mar-17 8203828

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