sebi:Order/SM/AD/2022-23/16006

SEBI · SEBI · 2020-12-04 · Soma Majumder, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violations held established against Noticee under Section 15HB of SEBI Act; penalty quantum not stated in excerpts

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J
• s. 28A

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 9
• Reg. 10
• Reg. 8
• Reg. 2(c)
• Reg. 201
• Reg. 5(2)
• Reg. 3(2)
• Reg. 9(1)
• Reg. 9(2)
• Reg. 40
• Reg. 40(7)
• Reg. 7(4)
• Reg. 40(2)

Parties

• M/s. Accurate Securities and Registry Private Limited

Holding

Noticee, a Registrar and Share Transfer Agent, was held to have violated transfer-processing norms, LODR tripartite-agreement requirements, Code of Conduct conflict-of-interest and record-continuity obligations, and associated-person certification requirements, attracting adjudication under Section 15HB of SEBI Act.

Full text

Adjudication Order in the matter of M/s. Accurate Securities and Registry Private Limited Page 2 of 24 initiated adjudication proceedings against Noticee under provisions of Section 15HB of SEBI Act for the aforementioned alleged violations by Noticee.

Adjudication Order in the matter of M/s. Accurate Securities and Registry Private Limited Page 3 of 24 dated May 09, 2001 and Clause B (2) of Schedule VII of Regulation 40(7) of LODR Regulation 2015.

Adjudication Order in the matter of M/s. Accurate Securities and Registry Private Limited Page 4 of 24 i. During the course of inspection, it was submitted by Noticee that, it had not received the previous records from the erstwhile share transfer agent (STA such as share certificate lying undelivered, unpaid dividend data, physical share transfer, demat request forms, issuance of duplicate share certificate/conversion of shares/transposition of shares, transmission of shares, remat, split, consolidation, payment of dividend, bonus, shareholder address, no. of shareholders at the time of agreement, no. of physical shares, no. of shares in demat mode, dividend amount transferred to IEPF, share forfeiture, partly paid-up shares etc. and no further efforts were made by them to obtain all such records from the following issuer companies:

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