sebi:WTM/RKA/IVD/ID-8/70/2012
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Facts / Headnote
Warning issued to all four noticees with direction to be strictly compliant with securities laws in future dealings
Provisions invoked
- s. 11
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 11
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 199
- Reg. 200
Parties
- Mr. Uday Vora
- Ms. Sonal Uday Vora
- Mr. Dhiren Vora
- Mr. Dharmesh Patel
Holding
The noticees dealt in the scrip of GCL in contravention of regulation 4(b) and (c) of PFUTP Regulations 1995 read with regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a) of PFUTP Regulations 2003, and are issued a warning with direction to remain compliant in future.
Full text
Page 2 of 7 3. It was observed that the top ten stock brokers who had traded in the shares of GCL accounted for 67.27% of the gross purchase volume and 63.27% of the gross sell volume, during the investigation period. It was noticed that a group of clients namely Mr. Rajeshkumar V. Patel, Mrs. Kirtiben R. Patel, Mr. Paresh R. Patel, Mrs. Hema Paresh Patel, Mr. Dhaval V. Shah, Mr. Dharmesh Patel, Mr. Uday Vora, Ms. Sonal Uday Vora and Mr. Dhiren Vora (‘the connected/related clients’) who were allegedly either connected with each other or with GCL or with PIPL had traded actively in the scrip of GCL which was otherwise an illiquid scrip. The major buying broker was Parklight Investment Pvt. Ltd. (PIPL) who bought 14,69,440 shares (13.65%) and sold 8,85,044 shares (8.22%). The major client of PIPL was Shri Uady Vora, its Director. It was observed that these clients created artificial volume in the scrip and impacted its price.
Page 3 of 7 to them on September 18, 2012 when Mr. Vijay Ranjan, advocate, appeared and made submissions on behalf of Mr. Uday Vora, Ms. Sonal Uday Vora and Mr. Dhiren Vora. During the course of hearing the learned advocate reiterated the submissions of Mr. Uday Vora, Ms. Sonal Uday Vora and Mr. Dhiren Vora made in their replies.
Page 4 of 7 the trading volume of those 5 entities was more than that of Mr. Uday Vora, Ms. Sonal Uday Vora and Mr. Dhiren Vora . In view of the same, they should be exonerated.
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