sebi:SD/AO/59/2009

SEBI · SEBI · 2000-08-04 · Sandeep Deore, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Penalty of Rs. 8,00,000 imposed on the Noticee for violation of Regulations 41, 42(1), 20A & 54(4) of the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996

Provisions invoked

• s. 15H
• s. 15I
• s. 15J
• s. 15
• s. 17

Regulations

• Reg. 20
• Reg. 20A
• Reg. 41
• Reg. 54(4)
• Reg. 42
• Reg. 54
• Reg. 413

Parties

• Mansukh Securities and Finance Limited

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held Mansukh Securities and Finance Limited (MSFL) liable for violating Regulations 41, 42(1), 20A and 54(4) of the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996, and imposed a penalty of Rs. 8,00,000 under Section 15HB of the SEBI Act, 1992. No violation was found under Regulation 20(2)(e) (complaints register) or the SEBI circular on account opening procedure.

Full text

Page 2 of 18 activities because even though separate areas have been assigned to each of their activities, including separate work area, back office for activities pertaining to the depository operations such as account opening, dematerialization, debit instructions etc, the Front office was used for all the operations, be it broking, DP (both CDSL and NSDL) or commodities and the employees of broking also involved in DP activities. ¾ The Noticee has not been maintaining any register for the complaints received from the investors. No details of complaints were made available during inspection like the date of complaint, BO id, nature of complaint, remarks etc and there is no system to record the complaints received through phone, walk-in customers, e-mails etc, which is in violation of Regulation 20 (2) (e)1 of the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘SEBI DP Regulations’). ¾ The Noticee has mixed and co-mingled the securities of various clients including that of its own directors and thus, violated Regulation 42 (1)2 of the SEBI DP Regulations of 1996. It has used the beneficiary account to retain client’s margin and their securities on instruction or in case of those clients having debit balances, house their securities in the broking accounts. In such instances the movement of securities from these accounts should ideally take place either to the respective Client account or Member’s pool account in case of the securities

Page 3 of 18 ¾ It has been observed that photograph of the investor was stapled and not pasted, which is prone to misuse. This has been found in the BO id’s 10026413 and 10026317. ¾ The Noticee was also found to have violated Regulation 413 of the SEBI (DP) Regulations of 1996 by not entering into agreement with the clients at the time of registration. There was a time gap of three months found between the date of opening account and the date of agreement and thus the Noticee has allowed the BO accounts to be operated without entering into the agreements, following are some of the instances wherein this violation has triggered: S. No. Ben ID Date of account opening Date of agreement Date of first transaction Difference in terms of days 1 10005378 18/09/2000 24/11/2000 04/10/2000 68 2 10005345 12/09/2000 24/11/2000 04/09/2001 74 3 10005337 13/09/2000 24/11/2000 25/09/2000 73 4 10005248 14/09/2000 24/11/2000 14/09/2000 72 5 10005152 09/09/2000 24/11/2000 06/10/2000 77 6 10005064 04/09/2000 24/11/2000 04/10/2000 82

Page 4 of 18 ¾ As regards the dematerialization, the Noticee was found to have violated Regulation 54 (4)4 of the SEBI (DP) Regulations, 1996 by not forwarding the DRFs to the issuer company/RTA within 7 days of the receipt. The following are such instances: S No. DRN No. Date entered by the client on DRF Date of dispatch Delay beyond 07 days 1 22795 26/06/2004 5/7/2004 1 2 15615 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 3 22794 26/04/2004 5/7/2004 1 4 22809 24/06/04 5/7/2004 3 5 15617 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 6 22914 10/7/2004 19/07/04 2 7 15618 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 8 15619 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 9 22966 5/7/2004 26/07/04 14 10 22973 18/07/04 27/07/04 2 11 15620 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 12 22981 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 13 15623 14/10/03 17/11/03 27 14 22982 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 15 15624 17/10/03 17/11/03 24 16 15630 5/11/2003 17/11/03 5 17 22983 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 18 15648 4/11/2003 17/11/03 6 19 22984 30/06/04 27/07/04 20 20 15649 4/11/2003 17/11/03 6 21 22985 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 22 15658 4/11/2003 17/11/03 6 23 22986 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 24 15651 4/11/2003 17/11/03 6 25 22987 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 26 15652 4/11/2003 17/11/03 6 27 22988 30/06/2004 27/07/04 20 28 15653 7/10/2003 17/11/03 34 29 23115 27/07/04 10/8/2004 7 30 15655 7/10/2003 17/11/03 34 31 15659 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 32 23127 29/07/04 10/8/2004 5 33 15600 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 34 23128 9/7/2003 10/8/2004 24 35 15661 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4 36 23183 28/07/03 16/08/04 12 37 15662 6/11/2003 17/11/03 4

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