sebi:WTM/RKA/IVD/NRO/154/2014

SEBI · SEBI · Rajeev Kumar Agarwal, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Restrained Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal from accessing the securities market and prohibited him from buying, selling or otherwise dealing in securities for a period of one year from the date of the order.

Provisions invoked

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

Regulations

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

Parties

• Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal

Holding

The noticee Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal was found to have aided other parties involved in the manipulation of the scrip of SML and thereby 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 was restrained from accessing the securities market for one year. However, the material on record was not sufficient to hold him guilty of violating rule 3 of the Stock Brokers and Sub-Brokers Rules, 1992 read with Section 12(1) of the SEBI Act, 1992.

Full text

Order in respect of Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal Page 2 of 5 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. (d) Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal had purchased 23,800 shares through Ms. Sonali Bansal and sold to Mr. Pawan Mishra, who was a driver of Mr. Ajay Kumar Agarwal, Director, 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 the SML attempted to influence price rise of its scrip by trading effected through front entities. (f) Dhanvarsha, Prasneeta and Vandana who acted as sub brokers did not have certificate of registration from SEBI to deal in securities. (g) Further, by creating false market in the scrip, the entities, i.e., the stock brokers/Vandana/ Dhanvarsha/Prasneeta/Mr. P. K. Agarwal/SML and its group concerns also apparently had attempted to induce general public to deal in the scrip. The motive could be to exit from the scrip (after booking profit) once general public had been lured into it.

Order in respect of Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal Page 3 of 5 Associates had stated that all the trading in SML was actually done on behalf of the noticee who was also introduced to them by Mr. I C Jindal. (d) The noticee had stated that he came to know Mr. I. C. Jindal, a client of Maheshwari, during his visits to office of Maheshwari and was introduced to Mr. Amit Bansal by him only. During one such visit Mr. I.C. Jindal introduced the noticee to Mr. Pavan Mishra who was interested in purchasing the shares of SML but who would make payment in cash only and that Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal was told that Mr. Amit Bansal would be ready to accept the cash. The noticee had further stated that since Mr. I.C. Jindal would not deal in cash, the noticee accepted the offer for a brokerage of `3,000/- and took cash from Mr. Pawan Mishra and gave the same to Mr. Amit Bansal. Mr. Amit Bansal in turn gave the noticee the shares of SML which were handed over to Mr. Pavan Mishra. The noticee also admitted that though he had purchased shares through Ms. Sonali Bansal, he had never met her personally and he used to deal through Mr. Amit Bansal only. (e) Mr. Pavan Mishra was a driver of Mr. Ajay Kumar Aggarwal, director of Prasneeta and that SML group was trading in the scrip through Prasneeta. (f) The noticee had lent his name and thereby provided a link to SML apparently for rigging the share price of SML. The noticee had thus aided and abetted the market manipulation in the scrip of SML by Vandana, Mr.

Order in respect of Mr. Kalu Ram Aggarwal Page 4 of 5 5. Before dealing with allegations and charges, I deem it necessary to refer to the provisions alleged to have been violated by the noticee in this case. Those provisions are reproduced as under:-

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