sebi:WTM/AB/MIRSD/SRO/33/2019-20
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Facts / Headnote
Confirmed directions issued against the Noticee in interim order dated October 18, 2019; ordered SEBI to carry out special purpose inspection and submit report within ninety days; interim order to continue till expiry of ninety days from date of this order
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 201
Holding
The Noticee did not make out a case for revocation, so the directions issued in the interim order dated October 18, 2019 were confirmed and SEBI was directed to conduct a special purpose inspection with report within ninety days.
Full text
Page 2 of 7 e. The RTA has failed to detect that irrespective of address/location of the original shareholders of some of its client companies, Police Station in which the complaints regarding loss of share certificates had been lodged are same; f. The RTA has not done additional due diligence with respect to verification of PAN numbers from Income tax website or any other database despite the shares and dividend were in the nature of unclaimed; g. In one instance, the RTA has changed the address without obtaining the proof of address.
Page 3 of 7 of PAN along with the self-attested copy of electricity bill. The signature found on the PAN card copy was tallying with the signature on the request letter and hence the request was processed and the change of address was updated.
Page 4 of 7 dated October 11, 1994 has instructed the Share Transfer Agents to “maintain Specimen signature cards and transfer deeds”. SEBI has also mentioned under clause 1(c) of Schedule 1 of above mentioned instructions that “Transfer Agents shall process all transfer/transmission/transposition/change of address/other requests/complaints and generate checklist, verify the same and correction of such data”. Therefore, after the company had appointed the Noticee as the Share Transfer Agent, it was the obligation of the Noticee to obtain specimen signature and maintain the signature cards. Moreover, when the request for change of address was received, the first step in verifying any supporting document would be to compare the same with the original. I note that in some cases, request for change in address is accompanied by copy of the electricity bill / driving license, etc. On a preliminary examination of the same, it is noted that the said documents appear to be not genuine. Therefore, it appears that the Noticee has not carried out the due diligence of comparing the copies with the originals. In all cases except one (where signature was missing) there were signature mismatches. The fact that the cases were in relation to folios where dividend remained unclaimed, that itself should have made the Noticee more alert and the Noticee should have exercised additional due diligence. The Noticee has submitted that it has taken banker’s attestation in the cases where there were sig
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