sebi:WTM/RKA/IVD/NRO/151/2014

SEBI · SEBI · 2004-08-31 · Rajeev Kumar Agarwal, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Restrained Vandana Securities Pvt. Ltd. and its director Mr. I.C. Jindal from accessing the securities market and prohibited them from buying, selling or otherwise dealing in securities, directly or indirectly, for a period of one year from the date of the order.

Provisions invoked

• s. 11B
• s. 11(4)
• s. 19
• s. 12(1)

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4
• Reg. 13
• Reg. 4(a)
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 12
• Reg. 4(2)(a)

Parties

• Vandana Securities Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. I.C. Jindal

Holding

The noticees, Vandana Securities Pvt. Ltd. and its director Mr. I.C. Jindal, were found to have violated regulation 4(a), (b) and (c) of the PFUTP Regulations, 1995 read with regulation 4(2)(a) and (e) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003, and by dealing as unregistered sub-broker, Vandana violated rule 3 of the Stock Brokers Rules, 1992 read with section 12(1) of the SEBI Act, 1992. They were restrained from accessing the securities market for one year.

Full text

Order in respect of Vandana Securities Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. Page 2 of 11 trading for SML group. They have also stated that they were introduced to SML group by Mr. P. K. Agarwal who is a Chartered Accountant and also a friend of Mr. Praveen Juneja, director of SML. (d). Mr. P. K. Agarwal reportedly played an instrumental role in managing the share price manipulation for SML. It has been contended by Mr. I. C. Jindal of Vandana that Mr. P. K.. Agarwal used to place orders on behalf of Dhanvarsha and Prasneeta. (e). The entire trading in the shares by these clients was for various promoter group concerns of SML. SML has admitted that their promoter group concerns had acquired shares from Dhanvarsha. Fund flow trail has also shown that Dhanvarsha and Prasneeta had received money from SML group concerns for the purpose of trading in the scrip of SML. SML had also given funds to these entities for acquiring its own shares. It is clear that SML attempted to influence price rise of its scrip by trading effected through front entities. Dhanvarsha, Prasneeta and Vandana who did not have certificate of registration from SEBI to deal in securities. (f). Further, by creating false market in the scrip, the entities, i.e., stock brokers/Vandana/ Dhanvarsha/Prasneeta/Mr. P. K. Agarwal/SML and its group concerns also apparently have attempted to induce general public to deal in the scrip. Probably, the motive could be to exit from the scrip (after booking profit) once general public had been l

Order in respect of Vandana Securities Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. Page 3 of 11 one Mr. P. K. Agarwal, Chartered Accountant, who is admittedly a close friend of Mr. Pravin Juneja, Director of SML. (c). The promoter group companies of SML were the final clients and had purchased the shares through Dhanvarsha and Prasneeta, apparently with a view to create artificial market and rig the share price. (d). The flow of transactions that created the artificial market and made possible the sharp rise in price in SML were as under:

Order in respect of Vandana Securities Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. Page 4 of 11 account was used to settle account with clients. (k). One of the clients of Adroit was Mr. Moti Ram who was introduced by Mr. I. C. Jindal. The letter sent by SEBI to the available address of Mr. Moti Ram was returned undelivered. When Mr. I.C. Jindal was asked to explain the trading by Mr. Moti Ram, he stated that a buy

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