sebi:WTM/TCN/ID3/04/4/2007

SEBI · SEBI · 1997-01-30 · Dr. T. C. Nair, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Debarment imposed: KMFL and its Managing Director debarred from acting as an intermediary in the capital market and prohibited from accessing the capital market and dealing in securities directly or indirectly for six months, with immediate effect.

Provisions invoked

• s. 11B
• s. 11
• s. 11(4)
• s. 19

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 13

Parties

• M/s. Kuku Motor Finance Limited
• Shri S. K. Chadha (Managing Director)

Holding

KMFL, as lead manager to the NEAL public issue, and its Managing Director Shri S. K. Chadha were found guilty of violating the Code of Conduct for Merchant Bankers and SEBI Circular No. PMD/CIR.217891/92 dated 24.12.92, and were debarred from acting as an intermediary in the capital market and prohibited from accessing the capital market and dealing in securities directly or indirectly for six months.

Full text

Home » Enforcement » Orders » Orders of Chairman/Members Enforcement Enforcement▼ DIRECTIONS UNDER SECTION 11(4) (b) READ WITH SECTION 11B OF THE SEBI ACT, 1992 AND REGULATION 11 OF SEBI (PROHIBITION OF FRAUDULENT AND UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES RELATING TO SECURITIES MARKET) REGULATIONS, 1995 READ WITH REGULATION 13 OF SEBI (PROHIBITION OF FRAUDULENT AND UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES RELATING TO SECURITIES MARKET) REGULATIONS, 2003 AGAINST M/s. KUKU MOTOR FINANCE LIMITED AND ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR SHRI S. K. CHADHA IN THE MATTER OF M/s. NATURAL EXPO AGRO INDUSTRIES LIMITED WTM/TCN/ID3/04/4/2007 1.0 BACKGROUND 1.1 Natural Expo Agro Industries Ltd. (NEAL) is a public limited company with its registered and corporate office at 9 Floor, Galav Chambers, Near Sardar Patel Statue, Saya Vadodara, Gujarat 390005. NEAL came out with a public issue of Rs. 275 Lakh in February-March, 1996, in order to part-finance the project for manufacturing Jaquard Furnishing and Curtain Fabrics. The issue for 77 lakh equity shares of Rs.10/- each for cash aggregating to Rs.770 Lakh opened on 3.5.95 and closed on 6.5.95. Several co were received regarding delay in transfer of shares and manipulation of price of the shares. A preliminary investigation by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (he referred to as SEBI) showed that there was a delay in transfer of shares as well as in the dispatch of shares after transfer. It was also noted that trading in the share was sus by the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (B

the minimum subscription of 90% as has been prescribed under the Companies Act, 1956, for successful completion of an issue. Consequently, NEAL had made arrangements for ensuring the minimum subscription of the public issue to enable the allotment of shares therein. 3.3 For this purpose, NEAL had entered into financing arrangement through Galav Investments and Finance Ltd. (GIFL) with six applicants to the issue. The shares allotted to th entities were never delivered to the entities and was used by NEAL to influence the price in its scrip and ultimately to sell the same at a profit. It was noted that 435 applicatio received for 69,76,800 shares and according to which, the issue was subscribed to the extent of 90.61%. From the list of applicants and allotees, it was noted that the follo applicants had applied for and had been allotted 60 lakh shares i.e. approx. 86% of the total shares allotted in the issue.  Applicant Stock invest No. Issued By Shares Applied Allotted Ketan Doshi Toophanmal Bhandari 12068 Global Trust Bank 100000 100000 Piyush Avlani Toophanmal Bhandari 12065 Global Trust Bank 100000 100000 Bhavna K. Doshi Toophanmal Bhandari 12064 Global Trust Bank 100000 100000 Kamlesh Doshi Toophanmal Bhandari 12066 Global Trust Bank 100000 100000 Muktaben H. Doshi Toophanmal Bhandari 12063 Global Trust Bank 100000 100000 Paulomi Doshi Toophanmal Bhandari 12067 Global Trust Bank 100000 100000 All the applicants mentioned above had shown their address as Nirmal, 3 Floor, N

manager failed to notice. Even though there is no bar of the number of applicants from the same address, the same should have cautioned KMFL and they should hav abundant care and caution while processing the applications. 3.5 KMFL by not exercising care and diligence in processing the applications had thus violated SEBI Circular No. PMD/CIR.217891/92 dated 24.12.92, which states that the Lead M responsible for post issue activities shall maintain a close co-ordination with the Registrars and arrange to depute its Officers at regular intervals after the closure of the monitor the flow of applications from collecting branches, processing of applications including those accompanied by stock invests and other matters till the basis of allo decided, and to ensure that the despatch of Share Certificates and refund cheques are completed in time and listing of the shares is done in the designated Stock Exchan Lead Manager has failed to detect any of these irregularities at the time of allotment and has not ensured that there is a complete compliance of the requirements in this rega enabled the public issue to sail through, resulting in 14% of the applicants being misled to believe that the issue had been properly or fully subscribed to and there was market interest in the scrip of NEAL. The non-compliance to the above referred circular would constitute a blatant violation of the Code of Conduct prescribed for Merchant B 3.6 Therefore, in my view KMFL and its director, Shri S. K. Chad

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