sebi:WTM/PS/07/ERO/APR/2015
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Facts / Headnote
Directions issued: refund of all money collected through RPS with 15% p.a. interest compounded half-yearly, market access ban for 4 years from completion of refunds, asset inventory, public notice, and various interim restraints.
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
- s. 55A
- s. 73
- s. 28A
- s. 4A
- s. 67(3)
- s. 67
- s. 73(2)
- s. 394
- s. 73(1)
- s. 2(36)
- s. 60
- s. 67(1)
- s. 56(1)
- s. 56(3)
- s. 73(3)
Parties
- Sunplant Forgings Limited
- Mr. Abhinandan Kumar Singh
- Mr. Sumanta Sinha
- Mr. Neeraj Pathak
- Mr. Arup Kumar De
Holding
The Company made a public issue of RPS by devising a means to keep allotments to less than 50 persons in each tranche, thereby circumventing section 67(3) of the Companies Act, 1956. The Company and its directors are directed to refund all money collected with 15% interest and are restrained from accessing the securities market.
Full text
Page 2 of 20 b) The Company had issued 96,98,100 - 14% Cumulative RPS to approximately 6658 investors. The Board of Directors of the Company had passed multiple resolutions for allotting the RPS and also filed multiple numbers of Form-2 (return of allotment).
Page 3 of 20 15. 21.11.2011 532700 392 8 16. 22.11.2011 495000 388 8 17. 23.11.2011 463600 392 8 18. 24.11.2011 527800 391 8
Page 4 of 20 67(3) of the Companies Act. The aforesaid facts clearly indicated that the number of persons to whom the issue of RPS was made by the Company in tranches during the financial year 2011–12, was 6662 and hence, was way beyond the limit of 49 persons as prescribed under section 67(3) of the Companies Act, 1956.
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