sebi:Settlement_Orders_220_Order_against_Indsec_Securities_and_Finance_Ltd

SEBI · SEBI · 2003-09-17 · Chairman, SEBI

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Facts / Headnote

Warning issued to be more careful in future; enquiry officer's recommendation of 4-month suspension rejected

Provisions invoked

• s. 4(3)

Regulations

• Reg. 7
• Reg. 5(1)
• Reg. 13(2)
• Reg. 13(4)

Parties

• M/s. Indsec Securities and Finance Limited

Holding

SEBI rejected the enquiry officer's recommendation of 4-month suspension and instead warned M/s. Indsec Securities and Finance Limited to be more careful in future. It held synchronized trading was not proved but the broker violated Clause A(2) of the Code of Conduct by failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence.

Full text

11-04-00  11:08:11  Indsec  250000 83 ICICI Brokerage 250000 11:07:36  83 35 11-04-00  12:06:26  Indsec  250000 83 ICICI Brokerage 250000 12:06:16  83 10 11-04-00  12:06:43  Indsec  250000 83 ICICI Brokerage 250000 12:06:24  83 19 11-04-00  12:07:02  Indsec 250000 83 ICICI Brokerage 250000 12:07:03 83 1 11-04-00 12:07:11 Indsec 250000 83 ICICI Brokerage 250000 12:07:12 83 1 In view of the findings of the investigation that the said broker had indulged in synchronized trading in the shares of GTB as enquiry office appointed under Regulation 5(1) of the SEBI (Procedure for holding Enquiry by Enquiry Officer and Imposing Penalty) Regulations, (hereinafter called enquiry regulation) vide order dated 17.09.2003 to enquire into the alleged irregularities by the said broker. 2.0             Enquiry Proceedings The enquiry officer after conducting enquiry in the manner provided in the enquiry regulations submitted his report on 14.01.04. The enquiry found as under: (a)              That the said broker has not disputed the transactions undertaken by him in the shares of GTB as shown in the findings of the inve that the said trades were executed on behalf of their clients in the normal course of business.

(i)                  They were not given inspection of the relevant document, which were referred to and relied upon by enquiry officer and which the said enquiry report, despite numerous requests and reminders for such inspection as, inter alia, set out in their reply dated (ii)                They were not even given any opportunity to confront or cross – examine IBSL or their client namely, Asian Development Bank called investigation report and the said enquiry report purported to hold that they had entered into synchronized deals / trade the fact that they repeatedly requested for an opportunity to do so as, inter alia, stated in their reply dated 03.12.2003. That the enquiry report did not deal with their replies dated 20.10.2003 and 03.12.2003. (iii)              That the enquiry report purports to hold that even trading in the normal prescribed computerized trading system can be held trade and punishable just because buy and sell orders are alleged to be input by different unconnected brokers at the same ra seconds. (iv)               That the Enquiry Report completely ignored the indisputable documentary evidence which proved that all the investors got wanted as evidenced by the trade logs, which show that their orders were executed against more than a hundred sell offers of

(xi)               That The enquiry report alleges that : “From the finding of investigation, I find that on 11.04.2000 the GTB scrip opened at Rs.74/- and till 10:29 it was hovering at 10:29 NH Securities, a Ketan Parekh broking company, placed buy order @ Rs.78/-for 5000 GTB shares which immediate Rs.78. At 10:30:56 NH Securities placed another buy order for 25000 GTB shares @ 78 our of which orders for around executed. At 10:31:09 NH Securities placed another buy order for 25000 GTB shares @ Rs.80 per share which took the pr minute later NH Securities took price to Rs.83 per share by placing a buy order @ Rs.83/- per share for 25000 shares”.

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