sebi:WTM/PS/IVD/ID-10/66/FEB/12

SEBI · SEBI · 2012-01-20 · Prashant Saran, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Clarifications issued: para 14.5 modified to permit limited dealing in shares for underwriting obligations; para 14.4 direction retained; para 14.7 direction retained without modification; 7 days granted to notify stock exchanges of compliance.

Parties

• OCAL
• Tushar Shridharani

Holding

The WTM partially clarified the earlier order dated 28.12.2011, allowing OCAL to deal in shares solely for fulfilling existing underwriting obligations for minimum subscription under SEBI (ICDR) Regulations, 2009, while declining to modify the directions in paras 14.4 and 14.7.

Full text

2 2. The aforesaid order was challenged before Hon’ble Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) in Appeal no. 17/2012 by OCAL & its 5 directors Vs. SEBI and

3 (i) OCAL is unable to meet the requirement of underwriting an issue, while acting as a Merchant Banker to a company because of the total prohibition in trading contained in para 14.5 of the order and

4 7. As investigation is pending, I refrain from getting into the merits/ veracity of the contentions made by OCAL in the appeal and the bonafides of the documents annexed thereat and submitted subsequently. However, in view of the directions of the Hon’ble Tribunal, I have relooked into the earlier order and consider that the following clarifications are appropriate in the circumstances.

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