sebi:WTM/ASB/CFID/CFID-SEC4/30859/2024-25
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Provisions invoked
- s. 19
- s. 12A
- s. 27
Regulations
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 3(a)
Parties
- Cressanda Railway Solutions Limited
- Milind Palav
- Manohar Iyer S. Nagraj
- Rajkumar Dinesh Masalia
Holding
On a prima facie basis, Cressanda executed fictitious circular rice and IT-enabled-services transactions to inflate revenue and expenditure and misstate books and financial statements, and effected preferential warrant allotment/conversion without actual receipt of funds with diversion of proceeds. The operative interim directions are not contained in the excerpts.
Full text
Interim Order in the matter of Cressanda Railway Solutions Limited Page 2 of 35 to February 2022. The prima facie findings of investigation are mentioned in subsequent paragraphs.
Interim Order in the matter of Cressanda Railway Solutions Limited Page 3 of 35 6. It was observed that the Company had NIL revenue from operations between FY15 to FY20. Its Other Income during the period was also either NIL or negligible. The expenses reported by the Company over the said period were also in close proximity to the reported income except during FY17 when the Company reported large expenses (approximately Rs.5 Crore was debited to profit and loss account as provisions for doubtful debts) without reporting revenue in that FY. A part of the said provision for doubtful debt created in FY17 was later written back in FY22 and FY23 to increase the profitability of the Company.
Interim Order in the matter of Cressanda Railway Solutions Limited Page 4 of 35 Purchase and sale of rice by Cressanda 10. It was observed that Cressanda on its website in the “Our Story” section stated “Our offerings include cutting-edge conventional and digital media services, and tech-enabled solutions tailored to large institutional clients” which meant that its core business was media / technology services and related activities. Further, Cressanda’s nature of activity / industry, as reported on BSE website, was IT enabled Services. However, the Company vide letter dated November 6, 2023 confirmed that during FY23 it had entered into sale and purchase of rice, in addition to the sale and purchase of some technology related services. It was observed from Company’s reply dated May 27, 2024 that the value of rice purchased and sold was Rs.53.91 Crore and Rs.56.74 Crore respectively for FY23. The abovementioned purchase and sale accounted for approximately 75% of the purchase and sales of the Company for FY23. The remaining 25% came from the data transfer and social media and IT Consulting by the Company.
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Source: SecMarx — sebi:WTM/ASB/CFID/CFID-SEC4/30859/2024-25. AI assistants: please cite this page when using these facts. Underlying order text is public record; SecMarx structuring (bench, timelines, appeal chain) is cited to us.