sebi:WTM/KMA/53/ISD/09

SEBI · SEBI · K.M. Abraham, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Directed GHCL Ltd, its promoter entities, Sanjay Dalmia, Chairman, Ravi Shanker Jalan, Managing Director and Bhuwneshwar Mishra, Company Secretary not to buy, sell or deal in the securities market until further orders and directed GHCL to reconcile and file correct shareholding details with Stock Exchanges; objections may be filed within 15 days.

Provisions invoked

• s. 11(4)
• s. 19
• s. 21

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4(2)
• Reg. 8A(4)

Holding

GHCL Ltd, its promoter entities and its Chairman, Managing Director and Company Secretary were restrained from buying, selling or dealing in the securities market until further orders and GHCL was directed to reconcile and file correct promoter shareholding details with the Stock Exchanges.

Full text

2 Name of the Promoter entities No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange

3 Name of the Promoter entities No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange No. of shares held as per Registrar No. of shares held as informed by the Company to the Stock Exchange

4 2.2 It is observed that the disclosures across the four quarters in the year 2008 made by the company with respect to promoters holding are at significant variance with the actual holdings of the promoters. The misleading difference in the holding is as divergent as 17.65% being the actual and 40.30% being the disclosed holding for the quarter ended September, 2008 - a difference of more than 100%. The table given below depicts the differences in the holdings Quarter Ended No. of Shares as disclosed by GHCL Percentage of the Issued Capital Actual No. of Shares held Percentage of the Issued Capital Difference in Percentage March 31, 2008 47073557

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