sebi:SD/AO/48/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Noticee held guilty of violating Sections 11C(2) read with 11C(5) of the SEBI Act; penalty of Rs. 2,00,000 imposed under Section 15A(a)
Provisions invoked
- s. 15A
- s. 15
- s. 15J
- s. 11C(6)
- s. 12
- s. 11C(2)
- s. 11C(5)
Parties
- M/s Cute Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Holding
The Noticee, M/s Cute Productions Pvt. Ltd., was held guilty of violating Sections 11C(2) read with 11C(5) of the SEBI Act for failing to comply with summonses issued by the Investigating Authority, and a penalty of Rs. 2,00,000 was imposed under Section 15A(a) of the SEBI Act.
Full text
Page 2 of 13 3. M/s Cute Productions Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Noticee’) was one of the entities who has allegedly dealt to an in the scrip of MCL during the period of investigation. During the period of investigation, the Noticee had reduced its shareholding in MCL from 12.25% to 0.26%. It is observed from the Investigation Report (hereinafter referred to as ‘IR’) that the Noticee was found as one of the promoter entity of MCL and it had off loaded 6, 00,000 shares of MCL during the period of investigation. For the purpose of investigation, the Investigating Authority (hereinafter referred to as ‘IA’) sought various information and documents including details of demat a/c, bank a/c in relation to its dealings in the scrip of MCL, for which summons were issued to the Noticee. It is alleged that the Noticee failed to comply with the summons of IA for which SEBI initiated adjudication proceedings under the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘SEBI Act’) against the Noticee.
Page 3 of 13 APPOINTMENT OF ADJUDICATING OFFICER : 5. Ms. Babita Rayudu was appointed as the Adjudicating Officer vide order of SEBI dated 10th May, 2007 under section 15-I of the SEBI Act r/w Rule 3 of SEBI (Procedure for holding Inquiry and Imposing Penalty by Adjudicating Officer) Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Adjudicating Rules’) to inquire into and adjudge under Section 15A(a)of the SEBI Act, the alleged violations of SEBI Act committed by the Noticee.
Page 4 of 13 of Finance for business needs and commitments and because of this requirement approached one of the Financer namely Galaxy Broking Limited. (ii)…Galaxy Broking Limited informed to us that they can arrange finance against pledge of shares and advised us to transfer the shares of MCL for the said purpose.. accordingly we have consolidated our promoters holding under single name i.e. our name and effected 612900 shares. (iii) … we kept on following with said financer/broker Galaxy Broking Limited for the required funds and to our surprise inspite of our follow up we never received any loan or any facilities or any consideration against the pledge of our shares. We approached them a number of times and finally they returned 612970 shares around August 2005 with an excuse that they failed to arrange for the funds. We are not aware how they dealt with the shares transferred to their accounts by us and on whose behalf. We never ever dealt with the shares or ever facilitated anybody to does so.
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