sebi:WTM/MPB/EFD1-DRA4/69/2018
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Facts / Headnote
Violation established; Noticee restrained from accessing and dealing in securities market for four years with existing holdings frozen
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 3(a)
Parties
- Mr. Amit Chouhan
Holding
Mr. Amit Chouhan violated Regulations 3(a),(b),(c),(d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a) and (e) of PFUTP Regulations by manipulating the price of Hasti Finance Ltd during October 9, 2012 to December 3, 2012. He was restrained from accessing the securities market and from buying, selling or otherwise dealing in securities for four years.
Full text
Order in the matter of Hasti Finance Ltd. Page 2 of 13 3. During the investigation period, corporate announcements were related to AGMs, declaration of financial results, consolidation of share capital, issuance of GDRs, preferential allotment, and other disclosures. No major impact of the corporate announcements on the scrip price was observed. Further, it is observed from the Investigation Report (hereinafter referred to as “IR”) that the company showed a rise in profit during the year ended March 2011 from ` 0.06 crore to ` 0.68 crore and thereafter showed a continuous fall between years ended March 2012 to March
Order in the matter of Hasti Finance Ltd. Page 3 of 13 Investigation – Patch 6 **09/04/2014 to 31/08/2015 (price fall) Price 76.8 12.05 10.8 (29/07/2015) 76.8 (09/04/2014) 25.10 Volume 3 2 1 (05/05/2014) 24580 (13/08/2014) 746 Post Investigation 01/09/2015 to 30/11/2015 Price 12.05 15.49 10.93 (09/10/2015) 15.49 (30/11/2015) 13 Volume 20 18 1 (19/11/2015) 38838 (30/11/2015 2229 * no trading between April 6, 2013 to April 10, 2013 ** no trading between the period April 1, 2014 to April 8, 2014 SHOW CAUSE NOTICE
Order in the matter of Hasti Finance Ltd. Page 4 of 13 3 ASHOK KUMAR SAMANTRAY 24.30 11351 154 50.8 927 40 -26.5 7395 71 3029 43 7.25 4 DILIP VANVIR SHAH 21.15 51673 187 38.40 17772 58 -17.25 12733 55 21168 74 5.48 5 NEETA M SANKHE 16.65 2000 37 16.8 839 23 -0.15 486 2 675 12 2.40 6 SHRAVAN KESHUJI CHAVADA 13.85 11220 116 25.5 1989 37 -11.65 3182 48 6049 31 3.64 7 BHAVANA JITENDRA MAYEKAR 13 418 13 13.3 43 7 -0.30 375 6 0 0 1.90 8 PADMANABHA JAGANNATH KOTIAN 10.90 3547 28 10.90 1153 11 0 0 0 2394 17 1.55 9 VIJAY GENBHAU GULVE 7.65 5491 39 14.75 1654 12 -7.10 77 5 3760 22 2.10 10 SURENDRA KUMAR TOWRANI 7.55 645 32 16.10 38 9 -8.15 32 4 575 19 2.30
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