sebi:WTM/KMA/ERO/IVD/265/06/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Certificate of registration suspended for a period of one month
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 4(2)(a)
- Reg. 28
Parties
- M/s Basant Periwal & Co.
Holding
The certificate of registration of stock broker M/s Basant Periwal & Co. [INB 030050513] was suspended for one month for manipulation in the shares of Bakra Pratisthan Limited. The suspension was to come into force immediately on expiry of twenty one days from the date of the order.
Full text
Page 2 of 6 Brokers and Sub-brokers) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as the Broker Regulations). Thereafter, SEBI, vide order dated February 18, 2007 read with subsequent orders dated November 19, 2007 and November 18, 2009 appointed an Enquiry Officer under the provisions of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Procedure for Holding Enquiry by Enquiry Officer and Imposing
Page 3 of 6 under Schedule II of the Broker Regulations. As stated earlier, the findings of the Enquiry Officer remain undisputed before me. The trades of the Broker accounted for 52.10% (18,42,152 shares) of the total volume in the shares of the company during the investigation period. The share price of the company had increased from Rs. 18.50/- to Rs. 380/-. The Broker had executed both buy and sell trades involving 10,63,712 shares of the company from its own terminal at the same price and quantity within a gap of few seconds. The Broker was involved in such transactions for a period of fifteen months during the investigation period. Some of such instances of cross deals were also mentioned in the Enquiry Report. The extracts of the investigation report and the relevant trade and order log in respect of the trades of the Broker were provided to it by the Enquiry Officer along with the show cause notice dated May 28, 2008. The trades of the Broker were responsible for 100% of the total traded volume at CSE on some of the days. The details of such trades and the resultant price increase were discussed in detail in the Enquiry Report. The Enquiry Officer had discussed the said trades elaborately and found that the same were in violations of the provisions of the PFUTP Regulations, as stated above. Though, the copy of the Enquiry Report was provided to the Broker, the same were not controverted by it. As stated earlier in this order, most of the trades of the Broker were in t
Page 4 of 6 2005, March 31, 2004 and March 31, 2003, the company had incurred loss (before tax) of Rs.0.51 lakh, Rs.0.66 lakh and Rs.0.17 lakh, respectively and that as on March 31, 2005, it had a negative Earning Per Share (EPS) of 0.05. In such a financial background, the share price of the company could not have increased but for the manipulation as happened in the present case where the Broker was a necessary party. The very fact that the Broker had traded substantially in the shares of the company which was otherwise illiquid would establish that it had indulged in an act which had created false and misleading appearance of trading in the securities. Further, by such process, the Broker had manipulated the share price of the company during the relevant period. A cumulative analysis of the facts of the case, clearly indicate that the Broker did not act in a bonafide manner. On the contrary, it highlights the complete involvement of the Broker in the creation of misleading market in the shares of the company and in the manipulation in its share price.
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