sebi:Order/MC/VS/2021-22/15798

SEBI · SEBI · 2021-06-21 · Maninder Cheema, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Noticee found liable for violation of Regulation 3(a), 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of PFUTP Regulations, 2003; penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 imposed under Section 15HA of SEBI Act

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15I
• s. 15J

Regulations

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

Parties

• Milestone Tie Up Private Limited

Holding

The Noticee violated Regulation 3(a), 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003 by executing non-genuine reversal trades in illiquid stock options on BSE, and is liable to a monetary penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of Milestone Tie Up Private Limited in the matter of Dealing in Illiquid Stock Options on the BSE

Adjudication Order in respect of Milestone Tie Up Private Limited in the matter of Dealing in Illiquid Stock Options on the BSE artificial volumes in the Stock Options Segment of BSE during the investigation period. b) The Noticee was alleged to have engaged in 61 such reversal trades in 19 unique contracts, which led to generation of artificial volume of 50,68,000 units. These trades of the Noticee involved 22 counterparties viz. Aditya Chowdhary HUF, Agrawal Channel Mills Private Limited, Ankush Goel, Ayush Bahety (HUF), Hardik Jalan HUF, Kapil Sarda HUF, Leaps & Bounds Private Limited, Mahesh Kumar Agarwal HUF, Narayanchand Motilal Rathi HUF, Premlata Garg, Puja Khanna, Purshottam Kumar Saraf HUF, Rajeshwariba Sarvaiya, Rexon Strips Limited, Rupesh Kumar Singh (HUF), Scan Steels Limited, Seema Goel, Siddharth Sethia HUF, Sumeet Panda, Sunil Kumar Khemka, Taraba Sarvaiya and Vandita Family Truston eight days 14/07/2015, 15/07/2015, 20/07/2015, 04/08/2015, 05/08/2015, 10/08/2015, 11/08/2015 and 08/09/2015, at different prices. Details of all the reversal trades of the Noticee in Stock Option Segment of BSE during investigation period were given in Annexure 2 to the SCN. c) The trades entered into by the Noticee were reversed on the same day with same counterparty at a substantial price difference without any basis for significant change in the contract price which indicates that these trades were artificial and are non- genuine in nature. d) A summary of dealings of Noticee

Adjudication Order in respect of Milestone Tie Up Private Limited in the matter of Dealing in Illiquid Stock Options on the BSE

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