sebi:PKB/AO-36/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Acquitted - matter disposed of, no violation established
Provisions invoked
- s. 15H
- s. 178
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 200
Parties
- Shri Lokesh Kapoor
Holding
The noticee Shri Lokesh Kapoor was not found guilty of violating Regulations 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent & Unfair Trade Practices related to Securities Markets) Regulations 2003, and the matter was disposed of.
Full text
Adjudication Order With Respect to Shri Lokesh Kapoor March 22, 2010 In The Matter of Today’s Writing Products Ltd. Page 2 of 11 March 2007 (15 months) the company made a profit of Rs 11.63 crore on a total income of Rs 193.38 crore and equity capital of Rs 12.81 crore.
Adjudication Order With Respect to Shri Lokesh Kapoor March 22, 2010 In The Matter of Today’s Writing Products Ltd. Page 3 of 11 connivance with each other for a number of days and thus had created artificial volume.
Adjudication Order With Respect to Shri Lokesh Kapoor March 22, 2010 In The Matter of Today’s Writing Products Ltd. Page 4 of 11 (iv) that the table connecting the various clients in the case of Mega Corporation Ltd. (“MCL”) does not have validity because SAT had reversed the order of SEBI in the matter of MCL; (v) that the total purchase and sale of the clients was 17.51,751 shares (35.69%) and 18,66,656 shares (38.03%) respectively and that probability-wise, any deal of these 12 clients could match each other for approximately 35% (every third time) of time and that therefore their having traded amongst themselves for about 35% of the time was within the realm of probability and hence justified; (vi) that it was alleged that the noticee had traded on 3 days for a total of 14, 691 shares, which accounted for 0.30% of market volume, which was not true because the noticee appeared only on the buy side and did not sell any share and that the term ‘trading’ is understood as ‘buying and selling’; (vii) that the tabular analysis was misleading as it was mentioned therein that the noticee had engaged in synchronised trading on 3 out of 4 days whereas in reality, he had traded on three days in total, during the investigation period; (viii) that the noticee had not acted in concert with the group as stated in the SCN; (ix) that Annexure VII to the SCN which contained the trade log of the group of clients shows that there was a substantial difference between sell order quantities and
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