sebi:Order/VV/NK/2021-22/12352

SEBI · SEBI · 2020-03-03 · Vijayant Kumar Verma, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation established; penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 imposed under Section 23H of SCRA

Provisions invoked

• s. 13
• s. 16
• s. 28A
• s. 18
• s. 23
• s. 23H
• s. 29A
• s. 17
• s. 23J
• s. 23I
• s. 16(1)
• s. 28

Parties

• Gandiv Investment Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held that Gandiv Investment Pvt. Ltd. violated Section 16 of SC(R)A, 1956 read with SEBI Notifications dated March 1, 2000 and October 03, 2013 and Sections 13 and 18 read with Section 2(i) by receiving 2,90,000 shares off-market without consideration, and imposed a penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 under Section 23H of SCRA.

Full text

In the matter of scrip of Jyoti Limited. Page 2 of 20 2. As per findings of the Investigating Authority (hereinafter referred to as IA), there were off-market transactions between 5 suspected entities. Gandiv Investment Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter also referred to as ‘Noticee/ Gandiv’) was one of the suspected entities. IA observed that during the period of investigation, Noticee entered into off-market transactions of a total of 2,90,000 shares of Jyoti with Pasha Finance Pvt. Ltd. (‘Pasha’) and Hridaynath Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. (‘Hridaynath’) and no consideration was paid for these transactions. IA vide letter dated March 03, 2020 and further emails sought information from Noticee with regard to abovementioned transactions, rationale/ reason behind the transfer of shares, relationship/ connection with the counterparty, consideration paid/ received, etc. towards the off-market transactions in compliance of Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SC(R)A, 1956’). Based on the submissions made by Noticee, IA observed that, Noticee has not provided any proof of payment of consideration w.r.t. off market transactions during the investigation period and prior to that. In view of the same, it is alleged that these shares were transferred without any consideration, and thus alleged to have violated Section 16 of SC(R)A, 1956 read with SEBI Notification No. S.O. 184(E) dated March 1, 2000 & SEBI Notification No. LAD-NRO/GN/2013-14/26/6667 dated October 03,

In the matter of scrip of Jyoti Limited. Page 3 of 20 4. A show cause notice bearing ref. no.EAD-9/ADJ/VKV/NK/ 4675/1/2021 dated February 23, 2021 (hereinafter referred to as SCN) was issued to the Noticee under Rule 4 of SCR Rules to show cause as to why an inquiry be not held against them in terms of Rule 4 of the SCR Rules and penalty be not imposed under section 23H of SCRA for the violations alleged to have been committed by them as applicable. The SCN were sent through the speed post acknowledgment due and email. The said SCN was duly delivered to Noticee’s address and email. The Noticee is in receipt of said SCN. However, the Noticee did not submit his reply within 14 days of receipt of SCN.

In the matter of scrip of Jyoti Limited. Page 4 of 20 c) Noticee vide its email dated March 12, 2020, May 27, 2020, June 12, 2020 and September 01, 2020 submitted that the shares were given to Hridaynath & Pasha as and by way of loan on August 28, 2013 and May 11, 2011 respectively. And the same were returned back on March 14, 2014 by Hridaynath and on March 19, 2014 by Pasha. Relationship with the counterparty is to the extent of buying / selling / lending of shares. There was no written loan agreement and the same was an oral understanding. Also, there were no financial dealings with regard to the said loan of shares. It was a friendly transfer of shares without any consideration.

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