sebi:WTMN/198/IVD/8/04

SEBI · SEBI · 2001-05-04 · T M Nagarajan, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Harbinger Trading Co. Pvt. Ltd. directed to disassociate itself from the securities market and not to deal in securities for a period of six months with immediate effect.

Provisions invoked

• s. 11
• s. 19

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4
• Reg. 4(b)

Parties

• Harbinger Trading Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

Harbinger Trading Co. Pvt. Ltd. violated Regulation 4(a), (c) and (d) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 by creating an artificial market and manipulating the price of Ravalgaon Sugar Farm Ltd., and was restrained from the securities market for six months.

Full text

Page 2 of 11 2 2.0 INVESTIGATION 2.1 Observing large volumes in the scrip during the above mentioned period, investigation was conducted and the brokers and the clients were called for ascertaining the reason of trading in comparatively large quantities. 2.2 The trades in the scrip were investigated for the period May 04, 2001 to June 29, 2001. The price of the scrip at The Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE) opened at Rs. 3650 on May 04, 2001 and touched a high of Rs. 5564.15 and a low of Rs. 3180 on May 15, 2001 and closed at Rs. 3975 on June 29, 2001. High volumes of 1012 shares and 1001 shares were observed on May 8, 2001 and May 21, 2001 respectively. 2.3 On BSE the brokers Tropical Securities & Investments Pvt. Ltd., M/s Lallubhai Ranchodas, SPS Share Brokers Pvt. Ltd. and Rosy Blue Securities Pvt. Ltd. were found having executed structured deals. 2.4 Harbinger Trading Co. Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ‘HTCL’) have traded in the scrip through the broker Lallubhai Ranchhoddas Share Brokers Pvt. Ltd. (LRSB) and Tropical Securities & Investments Pvt. Ltd. (TSIL). 2.5 HTCL bought 600 shares through the broker TSIL and sold 379 shares through the broker LRSB during the period. On May 31, 2001 HTCL have traded 10 shares without any change in the beneficial ownership through the above brokers. 2.6 One of the directors, Shri Milan Dalal was asked about artificial volume HTCL have created in the market he replied that the

Page 3 of 11 3 purpose was to raise temporary funds for settlement of their pay- in obligation in BSE and NSE as the case may be. Majority of the trades executed by HTCL through the brokers LRSB and TSIL are as under: 2.7 The broker TSIL and Shriya Capital Services are HTCL’s associate company and also had traded in the scrip. Following are the trades executed by HTCL and above associate companies of HTCL: Date Buying Broker Ultimate Buying client Selling Broker Ultimate Selling client No. of Shares execute d Total share s traded durin g the day. % of synchro nized shares traded to the total shares traded. Date Buying Broker Ultimate Buying client Selling Broker Ultimate Selling client No. of Shares execut ed Total shares traded during the day. % of synchroni zed shares traded to the total shares traded. Tropical Sec. Harbinger Trading Co. SPS Shares Aditi Asim Dalal 300 31/05/2001 Tropical Sec. Harbinger Trading Co. Lallubhai Ranc. Harbinger Trading Co. 10 338 91.72 1/06/2001 Tropical Sec. Harbinger Trading Co. SPS Shares Aditi Asim Dalal 300 345 86.96 5/06/2001 Tropical Sec. TSIL Own, Globex Fin., Harbinger Tr. Lallubhai Ranc. Harbinger Trading Co. 89 147 60.54 13/06/2001 Tropical Sec. TSIL Own Trading A/c Lallubhai Ranc. Harbinger Trading Co. 30 33 90.91 15/06/2001 Tropical Sec. TSIL Own Trading A/c Lallubhai Ranc. Harbinger Trading Co. 260 270 96.30

Page 4 of 11 4 8/05/2001 Tropical Sec. TSIL Own Trading A/c SPS Shares Brokers Aditi Asim Dalal 1000 1012 98.80 21/05/2001 Tropical Sec. Shriya Capital Ser. Rosy Blue Sec. Tropical Sec. Inv.

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