sebi:WTM/RKA/IVD/ID-4/56/2012

SEBI · SEBI · 2009-06-04 · Rajeev Kumar Agarwal, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Show cause notice dated August 01, 2011 disposed of; Beejay and Mr. Sudhir Jain's prior restraint treated as sufficient; Flex and Ms. Rashmi Jain restrained from accessing securities market for one year

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Regulations

Parties

Holding

Beejay, Flex, Mr. Sudhir Jain and Ms. Rashmi Jain violated regulations 3(a), (b), (c) and (d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a) and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations by executing synchronized, circular and reversal trades in the scrips of 'Temptation', 'Confidence', 'Cals' and 'SPSL'. The charge of price manipulation under regulations 4(2)(b) and (e) in the scrip of 'Temptation' was not established.

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Page 2 of 23 trading amongst themselves in synchronized nature was found to have contributed to the increase in the market volume in those five scrips.

Page 3 of 23 granted to the noticees on March 5, 2012, when the authorized representatives of the noticees appeared before me and made submissions.

Page 4 of 23 only of 102 days.. The trades were not continuous in nature. All the trades in the scrip of ‘Temptation’ were delivery based trades and were in the market. All the deliveries were made by the noticee from its own demat account and were not received or borrowed from any other person. The quantum of its purchase and sales during the relevant period was 6.58% and 4.94% of the BSE volume. (ii) Beejay’s trading was independent of the trades of Mr. Sudhir Jain or Flex where he is a director and at no point of time Beejay was privy to their trade details and vice versa. (iii) Beejay had bought 2,87,698 shares (14.35% of the BSE volume) during the investigating period. It had purchased a mere 77,034 shares representing 3.84% of BSE volume during the period at a price above Last Traded Price ('LTP'), 47,438 shares representing 2.37% of BSE volume at price below LTP and 1,63,226 shares representing 8.14% of BSE volume at LTP. Moreover, the counterparties in all our trades were entities other than the alleged "connected clients”. Thus, its buy trades were with an objective of trading in the scrip and not to manipulate its price. Moreover, all the buy trades had resulted in delivery and were not speculative in nature. Being an active investor, trading in the securities was its major source of income and livelihood. In such circumstances it was natural for it to place orders depending on the prevailing market conditions. While doing so, it was reasonable on its part to place

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