sebi:SPL/AO/SKS/SG/DCR/01/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Penalty imposed on the noticee for failure to disclose shareholding beyond 5% under Takeover and PIT Regulations
Provisions invoked
- s. 15A
- s. 15
- s. 19
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 7(1)
- Reg. 13
- Reg. 13(1)
Parties
- Shri Pravin Raiyani
Holding
The noticee, Shri Pravin Raiyani, violated Regulations 7(1) & (2) of the Takeover Regulations and Regulation 13(1) of the PIT Regulations by failing to disclose his shareholding of 9.34% in the target company to the company and stock exchanges within the prescribed time. A consolidated penalty of Rs. 1,00,000 was imposed under Section 15A(b) of the SEBI Act.
Full text
Page 2 of 10 same has not been disclosed to both the company and exchanges by which the noticee has violated the Regulation 7(1) & (2) of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997(hereinafter referred to as the ‘Takeover Regulations’) and Regulation 13(1) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘PIT Regulations’).
Page 3 of 10 a. The noticee has submitted that he had merely acted as a sub broker and it was purchased by Shri T.C. Kothari who in turn purchased for many entities. Since, the noticee was relied on words of Shri T.C. Kothari but noticee has no evidence proof of purchase. b. The noticee was a SEBI Registered Sub-Broker and at that time affiliated with M/s Apollo Sindhoori Cap. Investment Ltd and the client registration process by the broker was so slow and the noticee did not want to miss the opportunity of good brokerage and advance payment. The noticee had purchased on his own account and then transferred all deliveries to them. All the shares purchase were transferred to the Demat A/c as per the instructions given by the purchaser. c. The noticee has submitted that he was unaware of the requirements under Regulation 7(1) & (2) of Takeover Regulations. d. The noticee further submitted that he acted as intermediate sub broker and the noticee had no malafide intention of price jacking or takeover and unknowingly, the noticee was trapped in the above matter. e. The notiecee has further submitted that if he had purchased the delivery for him, it would have been lying in his demat account and there was no need of transferring. The beneficiary receiver is the interested party and the noticee was a small sub broker and was SEBI registered and affiliated with Apollo Sindhoori Cap. Inv. Ltd. since 2004 and not 2006 as mentioned in the Investigation Report page 12. f. The noticee fur
Page 4 of 10 put on the noticee. The notice was simply a small broker, earning for commission and the true fact is that after the happening of the above, the noticee had decided that since the noticee is unaware of all Regulations of SEBI, the noticee just become remisser with SEBI Registration & quitted a full fledged Broking House.
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