sebi:Order/SR/PP/2019-20/6227/144

SEBI · SEBI · 2019-04-03 · Sangeeta Rathod, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Adjudication proceedings disposed of without imposing any monetary penalty

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 12A
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4(1)
• Reg. 3(a)

Parties

• Bhavin Sureshbhai Thakkar

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer found that the Noticee did not violate section 12A(a), (b), (c) of the SEBI Act or regulations 3(a)-(d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a), (e) of the PFUTP Regulations, and accordingly no monetary penalty was imposed under section 15HA.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of Bhavin Sureshbhai Thakkar in the matter of Blue Blends (India) Limited . Page 2 of 11 Regulations, 2003 (in short PFUTP Regulations). Thereafter OD decided to initiate Adjudication Proceedings against Bhavin Sureshbhai Thakkar (in short Noticee) to inquire into and adjudge under section 15HA of SEBI Act the alleged violations of provisions of sections 12A(a), (b) and (c) of SEBI Act, regulations 3(a), (b), (c) & (d), and 4(1) and 4(2) (a) & (e) of PFUTP Regulations by the Noticee.

Adjudication Order in respect of Bhavin Sureshbhai Thakkar in the matter of Blue Blends (India) Limited . Page 3 of 11 closing price Rs.16.20), reached a high of Rs.109.6 on January 27, 2016 and closed at Rs.112.8 on February 01, 2016. Noticee has contributed Rs. 190.85 to positive LTP (24.94% to market positive LTP) in 169 trades with a volume of 2068 shares. In the 169 trades, the sell orders were placed before the corresponding buy orders, contributing 24.94% of market positive LTP. Out of 169 trades, in 162 trades the buy order price matched the sell order price and in 7 trades the buy orders were placed at a price higher than prevailing sell order price. The analysis of the positive LTP contribution of the Noticee is tabulated below- Buyer Name All trades LTP Diff. > 0 LTP Diff. < 0 LTP Diff. = 0 % of positive LTP to Total Market positive LTP Sum of LTP (Rs.) Sum of Qty. No. of trade s Sum of LTP (Rs.) Sum of Qty. No. of trade s Sum of LTP (Rs.) Sum of Qty. No. of trade s Sum of Qty. No. of trades Bhavin Sureshb hai Thakkar 183.10 4616 219190.85 2068 169 -7.75 922 12 1626 38 24.94

Adjudication Order in respect of Bhavin Sureshbhai Thakkar in the matter of Blue Blends (India) Limited . Page 4 of 11 (iii) IA observed that in 147 trades out of 169 trades, Noticee had put buy orders with quantity of shares in single digits i.e. mostly from the range of 1-9 shares whereas sell orders were available with quantity in the range of 1 to 5000 shares. Day wise summary of such 147 trades of the Noticee is as follows:- Date Number of trades LTP Contribution 07.01.2016 7 12.30 13.01.2016 5 11.10 14.01.2016 5 3.60 15.01.2016 24 35.80 18.01.2016 14 12.45 19.01.2016 20 24.85 20.01.2016 26 22.5 27.01.2016 11 9.15 28.01.2016 20 27.08 29.01.2016 12 14.55 01.02.2016 3 1.5 Grand Total 147 175.6 From the aforementioned table, IA observed that Noticee was following this trading pattern on several days and contributed positive LTP of Rs. 175.6. Thus, IA observed that Noticee was not acting as genuine buyer and had no bona fide intention to buy because in-spite of sufficient sell order quantity available in the market, Noticee bought small quantity of shares in each transaction. Thus, Noticee is instrumental in establishing a price higher than the last traded price and thus contributed to increased scrip price with most of his trades.

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