sebi:Order/PM/SM/2021-22/11345

SEBI · SEBI · 2015-12-25 · Prasanta Mahapatra, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Adjudication proceedings disposed of / dropped

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 19
• s. 15H
• s. 248
• s. 560

Regulations

• Reg. 3(a)

Parties

• Nikky Printing Press Private Limited

Holding

The Adjudication Proceedings initiated against Nikky Printing Press Private Limited vide SCN dated November 29, 2017 are disposed of and cannot be proceeded with, as the Noticee's name was struck off from the Register of Companies and the company was dissolved on August 08, 2018.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of Nikky Printing Press Private Ltd. in the matter of Esteem Bio Organic Food processing Ltd. Page 2 of 15 and its directors to get the minimum subscription required for successful listing of scrip in SME segment and therefore, adjudication proceedings were initiated against the Noticee under section 15HA of the Securities And Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as SEBI Act, 1992) for the violation of the provisions of regulations 3(a), 3(b), 3(c) and 3(d) and 4(1) of SEBI (Prohibition of Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (PFUTP Regulations, 2003) read with sections 12A(a), 12A(b) and 12A(c) of the SEBI Act, 1992.

Adjudication Order in respect of Nikky Printing Press Private Ltd. in the matter of Esteem Bio Organic Food processing Ltd. Page 3 of 15 b) During investigation it was observed that Esteem came out with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to raise Rs. 1125 lacs from issue of 45,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each at an issue price of Rs. 25 each. The shares were listed at BSE - SME segment on January 07, 2013. The price of the scrip opened at Rs 25.25 and increased to an intraday high of Rs 26.50 and closed at Rs 26.50 on the listing day. The issue size constituted, 30.20% of post issue shares, of Rs.10 each. Bidding Period of Issue opened on January 18, 2013 and closed on January 22, 2013. c) As per the prospectus, the proposed utilisation of the IPO proceeds was as under; Proposed Utilisation:

Adjudication Order in respect of Nikky Printing Press Private Ltd. in the matter of Esteem Bio Organic Food processing Ltd. Page 4 of 15 25/12/2015. Further, e-mail was sent to seek supporting documents with respect to the IPO proceeds utilization. Investigation observed that the information provided by Esteem with regard to IPO proceeds utilization pursuant to summons Invesigating Authority (IA) was incomplete and misleading. f) It is alleged by Investigation that certain entities were connected with Esteem directly/ indirectly and that these connected entities had funded the IPO applicants of Esteem. The details of these entities and basis of their connection is brought out in table below : SN Particulars Connection - Fund Movement 1 Goldline International Finvest Ltd. (Goldline)  Goldline received IPO proceeds of Rs. 239.60 lacs from ESTEEM.  ESTEEM given Rs. 245 lacs to ECO, the same was transferred by ECO to Goldline.  Goldline had fund movement with Mayfair Infosolution Private Limited, Guiness Securities Limited and Sanjeev Agarwal.  Goldline had also fund movement with the entities who had funded to IPO Allottees viz. AMS Powertronic Private Limited, Bright Securities, Columbia Sales. 2 Satendra Kumar (PAN: AWWPK8525E) Proprietorship Firm  Bright Securities  A R Enterprise  Nisha Traders  Nisha Traders received funds from Magnum Industrial and Bright Securities.  Bright Securities had fund movement with Nisha Traders, Magnum Industrial, N V Sales Corporation,

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