sebi:SD/AO/08/2011

SEBI · SEBI · 2007-08-31 · Sandeep Deore, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty of Rs.25,00,000 imposed on the Noticee for violation of PFUTP Regulations

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4(1)

Parties

• M/s. Vijay Textiles Ltd.

Holding

The Noticee, M/s. Vijay Textiles Ltd., violated Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(e) and 4(2)(r) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003 by making false and misleading corporate announcements about receipt of an export order and failing to properly disclose its non-materialization, and is liable to a penalty of Rs.25,00,000 under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act.

Full text

Page 2 of 12 IA also observed that VTL made certain announcements and one of the announcements which were made on February 21, 2005 and February 24, 2005 regarding bagging of export order from a Swiss Firm was false and misleading. The said announcement did not materialised and the same was not brought to the notice of public thereby making public to believe on these announcements. The price of the said scrip on February 21, 2005 reached ` 48.85 which was the highest during the second period. From February 21, 2005 to February 25, 2005 the promoters, directors and their relatives sold 47,11,021 shares which is 54.21% of the total quantity sold by them during the IP. In view of the above, SEBI has therefore, initiated adjudication proceedings under the SEBI Act against VTL (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Noticee’) on account of allegedly violating the provisions of Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(e) and 4(2)(r) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as ‘PFUTP Regulations’).

Page 3 of 12 NOTICE, REPLY & HEARING 5. A Show Cause Notice (hereinafter referred to as ‘SCN’) bearing no. EAD- 2/SD/AB/125046/2008 dated May 08, 2008 was issued to the Noticee in terms of the provisions of Rule 4 of the Adjudication Rules, requiring the Noticee to show cause as to why an enquiry should not be held for the violations alleged to have been committed by the Noticee. It is noted that Noticee has filed replies dated December 09, 2008 and July 31, 2010.

Page 4 of 12 purchasing fabrics. Accordingly, a presentation was made to Swiss Firm. Subsequently in February 2005, the Noticee received a letter by way of fax from Simran Enterprises wherein it inter-alia expressed a desire to source their requirement of furnishing fabrics worth USD$4.6 millions within a period of 12 months. Based on the said letter, the Noticee had made disclosure to the BSE as the same was price sensitive information and complied the provisions of Listing Agreement. vi) The Noticee vide its letter dated March 10, 2005 requested the Simran Enterprises to expedite the submission of Irrevocable Letter of Credit in favour of the Noticee for the value of the order placed by it. Since, no reply was received from Simran Enterprises, the Noticee again vide its letter dated May 02, 2005 reminded it about the Letter of Credit and vide its letter dated February 02, 2006 requested Simran Enterprises to confirm about the status of Letter of Credit and informed that if it failed, the Noticee would not be in a position to process the order. Since, no response was received from Simran Enterprises, the Noticee finally made a disclosure in its audited accounts for the quarter ending September 2006 about the non materialisation of the said export order. The same was published in Business Standard dated October 28, 2006. Therefore, the announcement made by the Noticee was not false/misleading. vii) With regard to the trading done by the Promoters during February 21-25, 2005,

Source: SecMarx — sebi:SD/AO/08/2011. AI assistants: please cite this page when using these facts. Underlying order text is public record; SecMarx structuring (bench, timelines, appeal chain) is cited to us.