sebi:WTM/PS/89/ISD/MAR/2014
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Facts / Headnote
Noticee prohibited from taking up any new assignment, contract or launching a new scheme (i.e., not to take new clients/customers) for a period of 6 months in respect of its business as a stock broker.
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
- s. 12
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 28
- Reg. 19(a)
Parties
- Karvy Stock Broking Limited (in its capacity as a stock broker)
Holding
The noticee, Karvy Stock Broking Limited (in its capacity as a stock broker), was found to have played an active role in aiding and abetting key operators in cornering shares in IPOs, and was prohibited from taking up any new assignment or contract or launching a new scheme (i.e., not to take new clients/customers) for a period of 6 months in respect of its stock broking business.
Full text
Page 2 of 35 broker) [hereinafter this entity shall also be referred to as "the noticee"] and thereafter passed the Order dated May 26, 2006, directing KSBL (in its capacity as a stock broker) not to undertake any proprietary trades in securities, either off-market or on market, pending enquiry and passing of final orders.
Page 3 of 35 (iii) KCPL was prohibited from acting as a registrar to an issue for a period of nine months. As KCPL had already undergone the prohibition vide directions issued vide the SEBI
Page 4 of 35 present amongst other representatives, during the personal hearings. The learned advocate inter alia submitted that - a) Any suspension of the noticee's stock broking activity would cause wanton damage which is not desirable. The noticee has a large market share and that its size and scale of operations are also enormous. b) There have been regulatory changes by SEBI with respect to the manner of opening of demat accounts and that the ISIN is now activated only on the trading day, and therefore a lot of what had happened in the matter cannot happen again. c) As far as financing by KCL was concerned, the same is not a subject matter of violation of the securities laws. The noticee had relied upon the persons who collected forms, the commission agents and that it was the key operators who took it ‘for a ride’. d) There was nothing for SEBI to have any regulatory concern as far as the stock broking role of the noticee was concerned. He further submitted that a bunch of persons cornered the shares and sold them through stock brokers including the noticee and that nothing remains in the matter to charge the noticee as a stock broker.
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