sebi:PT/AO-03/2012
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Facts / Headnote
Held guilty; penalty imposed
Provisions invoked
- s. 11B
- s. 15H
- s. 15
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
Parties
- Shri Pankaj Gupta
Holding
Shri Pankaj Gupta was held guilty of violating regulations 4(1) and 4(2)(a),(b),(e),(g) and (n) of the PFUTP Regulations for synchronized/matched trades in VIL, and a penalty of Rs. 10,000 under section 15HA was imposed.
Full text
Page 2 of 9 (v) in the second leg of the transaction within a short period of 2-23 seconds, the aforesaid positions were reversed with MSFL as buyer broker and ISSL as seller broker for its client Shri Gupta; (vi) in the reverse leg of transaction the time gap between placement of buy order and sell order was varying from 3 to 14 seconds, the buy and sell orders prices were also matching except in 6 instances, the buy and sell order quantities were also matching except in 4 instances and hence these the trades were structured; (vii) Shri Gupta brought and sold shares through broker, namely, ISSL in an structured manner and thereby violated regulations 4(1) and 4(2)(a),(b),(e),(g) and (n) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as “PFUTP Regulations”) (viii) the scrip was illiquid and as such there was not much volume in the scrip except on the days when the aforesaid structured trades and their subsequent reversal trades were executed.
Page 3 of 9 that he had done normal trading in the nature of jobbing in the scrip of VIL. He had also traded in other scrips in the similar fashion and he had no intention to create artificial volumes in the scrip of VIL. Shri Gupta also indicated to file his written submissions which he filed on 23.04.2007. In the said written submissions, Shri Gupta submitted that he had not traded with wrong intentions or for holding/creating artificial volume in any scrip. He also submitted statement of his account with M/s. Monalisha Securities (P) Ltd. (sub-broker of ISSL) during the period from 01.01.2004 to 31.03.2004 showing his details of trading in other scrips.
Page 4 of 9 Shri Gupta was also informed that if no response is received by 17.03.2012, it will be presumed that he did not wish to add anything further and the proceedings shall be concluded on the basis of the available record. From the information available on the website of India Post i.e. www.indiapost.gov.in, it has been noted that the said letter was delivered to Shri Gupta on 05.03.2012. However, till date no response has been received from Shri Gupta. Accordingly, I presume that he does not wish to make any further submission and as indicated in the letter dated 02.03.2012, I proceed to adjudicate the present matter on the basis of the material available on record, as referred above.
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