sebi:PG/DT/AO-08/2012

SEBI · SEBI · 2011-09-12 · Piyoosh Gupta, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation found; penalty of Rs 50,000 imposed

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 12
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 12

Parties

• V. S. N. Raju

Holding

The Noticee, as an 'officer' of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., violated Clause 4.2 of the Code under Schedule I read with Regulation 12(1) of the PIT Regulations by buying and selling stock futures on December 18, 2008, and a monetary penalty of Rs 50,000 under Section 15HB of the SEBI Act was imposed on him.

Full text

Adjudication Order in respect of V.S.N. Raju in the matter of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Page 2 of 11 clients sold before January 7, 2009. The trading window was closed from December 17, 2008 and stayed closed till beyond January 9, 2009. On December 17, 2008, the scrip fell to a low of ` 151, a 33.5% fall from previous close but after the cancellation of the decision, it recovered marginally to close at ` 157.10 on NSE.

Adjudication Order in respect of V.S.N. Raju in the matter of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Page 3 of 11 Appointment of Adjudicating Officer

Adjudication Order in respect of V.S.N. Raju in the matter of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Page 4 of 11 Companies Act, 1956 and the Insider Trading policy of SCSL. The Noticee had also stated that he has trading and demat account with Religare and as part of their marketing strategy, when the officials of Religare had approached the Noticee and presented various trading opportunities in securities, the Noticee had advised the dealer to carry out the trading in his account without putting him to any losses. The Noticee had instructed Religare not to do any kind of trading in the shares of SCSL either in cash/derivative segments. When the Noticee came to know of the said transaction done on December 18, 2008, he had immediately instructed to square off the same regardless of profit or loss and thus the transaction was squared off in an hour’s time. The Noticee submitted that this was the only transaction executed by Religare unintentionally as they were unaware of the SEBI regulations/guidelines in this regard. Further, the merger of SCSL with MIL/MPL was no longer UPSI as on December 18, 2008, when the trade was done as the information was disseminated on December 16, 2008 and after the same got aborted, it was intimated to public on December 17, 2008.

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