sebi:WTM/KMA/IVD/199/12/2009
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Facts / Headnote
Restrained the noticees from accessing the securities market and from buying, selling and dealing in securities for a period of three years
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
- s. 81
Regulations
- Reg. 11
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 6
Holding
NML, its directors, PHAL, the four conduit entities, Mr. Falgun C. Shah and Mr. Dharmendra D. Oza were held to have violated Regulation 3 and 6(a) of the PFUTP Regulations by allotting 90,00,000 shares to PHAL without actual receipt of consideration and subsequently trading such irregularly allotted shares, and were restrained from accessing the securities market for three years.
Full text
Page 2 of 16 shares as the amount received by it was found to have been returned to PHAL on the same date, as mentioned above. Besides, it was also found that some of the shares which were allotted on preferential basis without consideration were traded subsequently in the market. It was alleged that NML, its Chairman, Mr. B. N. Thakore, its Joint Managing Director, Mr. N.J. Patel and director, Mr. Nimish B. Thakore along with Indeen Investment & Agencies Private Limited, Foundation Securities & Finlease Private Limited, Shri Dwarikadhish Securities & Finlease Private Limited and Ethics Securities & Finlease Private Limited had contravened Regulation 3 and 6(a) of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the PFUTP Regulations). It was further observed that PHAL had transferred the allotted 90,00,000 shares of NML to one Falgun C. Shah (a friend of Mr. Nimish B. Thakore) on March 31,
Page 3 of 16 Investment & Agencies Private Limited, Shri Dwarikadish Securities & Finlease Private Limited, Ethics Securities & Finlease Private Limited, Foundation Securities & Finlease Private Limited, Mr. Falgun C. Shah and Mr. Dharmendra D. Oza inter alia to show cause as to why suitable directions including direction of restraining from accessing securities market for a specific period.
Page 4 of 16 extension for filing their reply. Thereafter, as requested by NML, vide letter dated July 5, 2008, SEBI granted time upto July 30, 2008 for filing their reply to the show cause notice. However, SEBI had not received any reply, either from N. J. Patel or NML as had informed earlier and instead, vide letter dated July 28, 2008 (received by SEBI on July 30, 2008) NML requested for further extension of time for filing its reply. Thereafter, the time to file the reply was extended from time to time as per the request of NML. Finally, Mr. N.J. Patel, vide letter dated March 7, 2009 filed the reply on behalf of himself and NML. The submissions made by them in the said letter are inter alia the following: a) NML was promoted by Mr. N. J. Patel along with other directors in the year 1990 as a private limited company. Being a technical person, he was looking after the technical aspects as well as marketing of the products produced by NML since inception and was not in its day-to-day management. That after taking over the reins of NML with effect from June 1, 2001, its Mumbai Office was closed and Mr. N. J. Patel was in complete charge of the affairs of NML. NML started facing severe financial crunch from the financial year 1998 onwards and therefore, started looking out for various alternatives of infusing funds in NML. Mr. Nimish B. Thakore, an alternative director of NML, brought a proposal for and on behalf of M/s. Positive Healthcare LLC, a company situated in United
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