sebi:WTM/GA/33/ISD/10/07

SEBI · SEBI · 2005-02-07 · G Anantharaman, Whole-Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Interim directions dated September 28, 2005 and January 25, 2006 vacated with immediate effect

Parties

• Minal Engineering Ltd.
• Kamlesh Khandhor
• Shri Shrikant Parikh

Holding

There is no need to continue the directions given vide interim orders dated September 28, 2005 and January 25, 2006, and the same are vacated with immediate effect.

Full text

Page 2 of 4 Kamlesh Khandhor shall not further transfer the shares. The company and the depositories shall not give effect to any such transfer, if attempted to be made. (b) Minal Engineering Ltd. may reissue its forfeited shares provided that the allottees shall not further transfer the shares. The company and the depositories shall not give effect to any such transfer, if attempted to be made. 2.1 I have noted that the shares of the company witnessed a sharp price variation during the period February 2005 to September 2005 whereby the share price of the company went up from Rs.4.33 on February 7, 2005 to Rs.452.35 on September 15, 2005. The steep increase in price of the share combined with low trading volume in the share warranted an immediate examination of the dealings in the shares. Based on the preliminary findings, it prima facie, appeared that there could be manipulation of the price of the shares where the performance of the company did not justify the sudden spurt in the share price. It was suspected that the beneficiaries of this price rise might be the promoters who were holding more than 90% of the existing paid up capital. These factors warranted a detailed investigation by SEBI. It was apprehended that if the promoters were allowed to offload their existing holdings or to acquire and thereafter offload any shares that might be acquired in the proposed bonus issue or reissue of forfeited shares, either directly or indirectly, incalculable injury would be caused

Page 3 of 4 Shah, examination of various clients including Shri Shrikant Parikh on oath and examination of KYC forms and other details, indicated that the unusual price rise in the scrip might be attributed to the high concentration of promoters’ share holding(90.28%) and less liquidity with relatively low floating stock of only 11,500 demat shares (as on March 31, 2005) and large buy orders over sell orders on most of the occasions. The examination of order log has revealed that most of the days there were more buyers with large buy-order quantity than the sellers. It was also observed that the orders were placed at upper price band level because of the buy order quantity far exceeded the sell order quantity. Most of the buyers, who were examined, informed that they had traded in the scrip due to their observation of less number of shares available for trading due to large promoter shareholding in the scrip which was one of the indicators for possible price rise. Also, no particular client or group of clients had consecutively set the price and the clients were found to be scattered. The examination of client details and KYC forms obtained from various brokers has also not revealed any connection or concerted effort among the various clients who traded in the shares of the company during the period February to September 2005. 2.4 The conduct of Shri Shrikant Parikh, managing director of the company in giving Rs.10 lakh to a stock broker without any agreement and further givi

Page 4 of 4 scattered client activity while the concentration of the nearly 90% holding with the promoters pre-disposed to lack of liquidity of the shares of the company in the market paving the way for price rise even on thin trades. 3.0

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