sebi:WTM/RKA/IVD/ID-8/71/2012
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Facts / Headnote
Certificate of registration suspended for one week
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 13
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 4(b)
- Reg. 199
- Reg. 200
- Reg. 28(2)
- Reg. 27
Parties
- M/s Parklight Investments Private Limited
Holding
PIPL did not violate Regulations 4(b) and 4(c) of PFUTP Regulations 1995 read with Regulations 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of PFUTP Regulations 2003 but violated Clauses A(1) and (4) of Code of Conduct for stock brokers read with Regulation 7 of Stock Brokers Regulations, and its certificate of registration (INB 011037836) was suspended for one week.
Full text
Page 2 of 10 ('PFUTP Regulations 1995') read with regulations 4(1),4(2)(a)read with regulation 13 of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 ('PFUTP Regulations 2003') and clauses A(1) to (5) of Code of Conduct specified for stock brokers in Schedule II read with Regulation 7 of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub-Brokers) Regulations, 1992 ('Stock Brokers Regulations').
Page 3 of 10 contended that merely being a common shareholder or common director cannot lead to a conclusion that PIPL was involved in its clients' trading. d) Its total trades consisted of 14, 69,440 shares (13.65% of the total traded volume) bought and 8, 85,044 shares (8.22% of the total traded volume) sold. As stated in the SCN, the noticee had done trades for 1, 43,047 shares of GCL on its own account during the investigation period and these trades had contributed only 1.32% of the total traded volume in the relevant period. The noticees's trades were negligible compared to the total traded volume during the investigation period and hence it would be unfair to allege any market manipulation serious enough to create any significant artificial volume and price fluctuation due to its negligible trades. e) Relying upon the order of Kasat Securities Pvt. Ltd. vs. SEBI, the noticee has contended that to hold a broker in violation of any regulations or to make it liable to any penalty sufficient material on record is to be placed to establish that it was aware of the nature of the transaction executed by its clients. On a screen based trading mechanism of the exchange and during the relevant time, PIPL was not aware of the identity of the other brokers/clients who were trading in the scrip of GCL during the investigation period. f) In this matter, the proceedings under sections 11 and 11B of the SEBI Act, 1992 were initiated against 5 entities out of a group of alleged 9 conne
Page 4 of 10 that the only charge against the noticee is violation of Code of Conduct and the SCN or Report does not allege any wrong or manipulative or fraudulent dealing on the part of the noticee. He further submitted that Mr. Uday Vora, Ms. Sonal U Vora and Mr. Dhiren Vora were regular clients of the noticee and as such there was nothing unusual suspected by the noticee that could alert it. Hence, the noticee can not be held liable for negligence in that regard.
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