sebi:Order/PM/GD/2021-22/14560-14569

SEBI · SEBI · 2018-05-04 · Prasanta Mahapatra, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Noticees held to have violated regulations 3(a), 3(b), 3(c), 3(d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(e) of PFUTP Regulations, 2003 and liable for monetary penalty under section 15HA of the SEBI Act, 1992

Provisions invoked

• s. 11B
• s. 15
• s. 19
• s. 11(1)
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4(1)
• Reg. 200
• Reg. 3(a)

Parties

• Dhanlakshmi Brokers Private Limited
• Padma Impex Private Limited
• Manju Khandelia
• Comfort Intech Limited
• Esquire Enclave Private Limited
• Helpful Investment Advisory Private Limited
• Jugal Chandrakant Thacker (HUF)
• Vandana Sharma
• Madan Lal
• Asha Sharma

Holding

The Noticees created misleading appearance of trading and manipulated the price of Rutron International Ltd. by trading among themselves, thereby violating regulations 3(a), 3(b), 3(c), 3(d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(e) of PFUTP Regulations, 2003 and attracting monetary penalty under section 15HA of the SEBI Act, 1992.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of various entities in the matter of Rutron International Ltd. Page 2 of 64 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Investigation Period / IP'). During investigation, it was observed that the company had, prior to the investigation period, allotted 98,50,000 shares and 77,10,000 shares of Rs.10/- per share on preferential basis at its face value on December 05, 2011 & March 01, 2012 respectively and the said shares were under lock-in for the period of one year. Investigation observed that 10,23,62,427 shares were traded in 33,479 trades over a period of 568 trading days during the investigation period with an average daily traded volume of 1,80,215 shares. The price of the scrip opened at Rs.5.25/- on May 03, 2012, and reached a high of Rs.270/- on March 22, 2013. The scrip had recorded highest closing price of Rs. 269.70/- on September 10, 2013 and thereafter, price of scrip went down and closed at Rs.7.30/- on November 28, 2014. Pursuant to the investigation, it was observed that Dhanlakshmi Brokers Private Limited (Noticee 1), Padma Impex Private Limited (Noticee 2), Manju Khandelia (Noticee 3), Comfort Intech Limited (Noticee 4), Esquire Enclave Private Limited (Noticee 5), Helpful Investment Advisory Private Limited (Noticee 6), Jugal Chandrakant Thacker (HUF) (Noticee 7), Vandana Sharma (Noticee 8), Madan Lal (Noticee 9) and Asha Sharma (Noticee 10) (hereinafter referred to as Noticee 1 to Noticee 10 are collectively referred to as you / Noticees’) co

Adjudication Order in respect of various entities in the matter of Rutron International Ltd. Page 3 of 64 3(b), 3(c), 3(d) and regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(e) of PFUTP Regulations,

Adjudication Order in respect of various entities in the matter of Rutron International Ltd. Page 4 of 64 Act, 1992 and the Rules, Regulations made thereunder during the period from May 3, 2012 to November 28, 2014 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Investigation Period / IP').

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