sebi:PKK/AO/16/2011

SEBI · SEBI · 2008-03-17 · P K Kuriachen, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty imposed on the Noticee for fraudulent and unfair trade practices

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4

Parties

• Shri Chetan Mehta

Holding

The Noticee, Shri Chetan Mehta, violated Regulations 4(1) and 4(2)(e) of the PFUTP Regulations by trading fraudulently and creating price manipulation in the scrip of CNIL, and a monetary penalty of Rs. 1,00,000/- was imposed under Section 15HA of the Act.

Full text

Page 2 of 9 of the period of investigation. The fundamentals of the Company were not encouraging and could not justify such a steep rise in the price of the scrip. The investigation revealed that certain entities, including Shri Chetan Mehta (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Noticee’), transacted in the shares of CNIL in a fraudulent manner and created price manipulation in the scrip.

Page 3 of 9 5. It is alleged that the Noticee, in collusion with another client, Shri Piyush R. Desai, had traded fraudulently and created price manipulation in the scrip of CNIL. The Noticee and Shri Desai were found to be connected. They had artificially increased the price of the scrip on thin volume by putting buy orders at significantly higher level than the last traded price of the scrip. The Noticee and Shri Desai had also acted as counterparty client for a number of each other’s trades.

Page 4 of 9 b) Does the violation, if any, on the part of the Noticee attract any monetary penalty under Section 15HA of the Act? c) If yes, what should be the quantum of monetary penalty?

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