sebi:SD/AO/04/2008
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Facts / Headnote
Violation established; no monetary penalty imposed; matter disposed of
Provisions invoked
- s. 15H
- s. 15I
- s. 15J
- s. 15
- s. 87(2)
- s. 87
- s. 872
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 10
- Reg. 14
- Reg. 14(1)
- Reg. 21(5)
Parties
- M/s S V Shah
- Piyush Goyal
- Pradeep Goyal
- Vedprakash Goyal
- Chandrakanta Goyal
- Neeru Goyal
- Seema Goyal
- Abhinav Goyal
Holding
The Noticees violated Regulation 10 read with Regulation 14 by failing to make a public announcement upon acquisition of voting rights increasing from 7.6% to 35.53%, but no monetary penalty under Section 15H(ii) was imposed.
Full text
Page 2 of 17 from IDBI by making 1st payment on January 27,2006 and final on March 27,2006. By acquiring these OCCRPS, the collective voting rights of M/s S V Shah along with PACs were increased from 7.6% to 35.53% of the total voting rights of PML. As the said acquisition of additional voting rights i.e. 27.93% in Target Company or PML crossed the requisite limit of 15% of the voting rights in the said Target Company, the provisions of Regulation 10 of the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Takeover Regulations’) Regulations was attracted. Further, the M/s S V Shah along with PACs had failed to make the public announcement in accordance with the provisions of Takeover Regulation and thus violated of Regulation 10 of the Takeover Regulations for which the present adjudication proceeding has been initiated.
Page 3 of 17 • The Board of PML in its meeting held on May 13, 2006 took on record the relinquishment of voting rights proposed by M/s S V Shah and called for an EGM on June 24, 2006 to amend the Articles for cancelling the voting rights on the OCCRPS. The EGM convened on June 24, 2006 and the Articles of Association(AoA) of PML were amended to insert new Article 8A that would record the relinquishment of voting rights on the preference shares acquired by M/s S V Shah.
Page 4 of 17 penalty be not imposed under Section 15H(ii) of the SEBI Act for their failure to make a public announcement to acquire 20% of the voting capital of PML in terms of Regulation 10 read with Regulation 14 of the Takeover Regulations. A common reply dated July 02,2007 was filed by the Noticees and they requested for the personal hearing.
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