sebi:WTM/TCN/151/IVD2/Jan/09
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Facts / Headnote
Directions issued restraining noticees from accessing the securities market for specified periods and directing them to cease and desist from the impugned conduct.
Provisions invoked
- s. 11B
- s. 11
- s. 19
- s. 11D
Regulations
- Reg. 11
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3(a)
- Reg. 3(b)
Parties
- Shri Anirudh Sethi
- Shri Kamal S. Dalal
- Ajay Gupta
- Chehar Securities Pvt. Ltd.
Holding
The order held that Shri Anirudh Sethi violated Regulation 3(b) & (c) and 4(2)(a), (f), (k) and (r) of the SEBI (PFUTP) Regulations, 2003, and that Kamal Dalal, Ajay Gupta and Chehar Securities violated Regulation 3(a), (b) & (c) and 4(2)(a) & (b) of the same Regulations, by engaging in a pump-and-dump scheme around website recommendations. Directions were issued restraining Sethi and Dalal from accessing the securities market for 3 months, and Ajay Gupta and Chehar Securities for 1 month, along with cease and desist directions.
Full text
2 scrips of VIP Industries, Archies Industries Ltd., BGFL, Amaraja Battery and Dabur were surrounded around the ‘tips’/ ‘investment advice’ given on the website www.valuenotes.com by a stock analyst called Shri Anirudh Sethi.
3 2.1 In view of the facts mentioned above, SEBI vide letter dated March 6, 2007, called upon to show cause why suitable directions including
4 Shri Kamal Dalal did not present himself for inspection of documents and also did not furnish any reply to the show cause notice.
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