sebi:SD/AO/128/2009
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Facts / Headnote
Allegations not established; matter disposed of with no penalty
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15I
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
Parties
- M/s Marwadi Shares and Finance Ltd.
Holding
The Adjudicating Officer held that violation of Regulation 4(1) and 4(2)(a), (b), (e), (g) and (n) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003 and Clauses A(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of the Code of Conduct for Stock Brokers by M/s Marwadi Shares and Finance Ltd. was not proved, and disposed of the matter without penalty.
Full text
Page 2 of 11 manner that led to creation of artificial volumes in the scrip and was designed to create a false market and distorted market equilibrium leading to spurt in the price of the scrip which did not have any correlation with the performance of the company.
Page 3 of 11 an enquiry should not be held against it in terms of Section 15I of the SEBI Act and penalty be not imposed under Section 15HA and 15HB of the SEBI Act for the alleged violation by it of the abovementioned provisions of the PFUTP Regulations and the Broker Regulations.
Page 4 of 11 (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of regulation 3, no person shall indulge in a fraudulent or an unfair trade practice in securities. (2) Dealing in securities shall be deemed to be a fraudulent or an unfair trade practice if it involves fraud and may include all or any of the following, namely :— (a) indulging in an act which creates false or misleading appearance of trading in the securities market; (b) dealing in a security not intended to effect transfer of beneficial ownership but intended to operate only as a device to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in the price of such security for wrongful gain or avoidance of loss; … (e) any act or omission amounting to manipulation of the price of a security; … (g) entering into a transaction in securities without intention of performing it or without intention of change of ownership of such security; … (n) circular transactions in respect of a security entered into between intermediaries in order to increase commission to provide a false appearance of trading in such security or to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in the price of such security;”
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