Adani Enterprises shares declining the most by over 5%, being the top loser on the Nifty index. Among other Adani Group stocks, Adani Power and Adani Transmission plunged more than 4% each, while Adani Ports & SEZ, Adani Green Energy, Adani Total Gas and Adani Wilmar shares were down over 3% each.
Besides, Ambuja Cements dropped as much as 4.07%, ACC declined 2.2% and NDTV dipped 3% on the BSE. The Adani Group stocks are in focus as the capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to submit its report to the Supreme Court of India on its probe over the allegations made by US-based Hindenburg Research against the Adani Group.
The Supreme Court had granted Sebi an extension until August 14 to conclude its investigation into allegations against the billionaire Gautam Adani-led conglomerate made by the US short-seller. According to a CNBC-TV18 report, the Supreme court has listed the case for hearing on August 29.
The apex court had directed the regulator to provide a specific report on its investigation into alleged violations of minimum public shareholding (MPS) norms by certain Adani companies. Read here: Sebi gets time till 14 Aug to complete Adani probe The Hindenburg report released in January this year claimed “brazen accounting fraud" and “stock manipulation" by the Gautam Adani-led group.
Though the conglomerate rejected the report as “unresearched" and “maliciously mischievous", it triggered a massive rout of Adani group stocks, which lost over $140 billion in days and forced the cancellation of a ₹20,000 crore share sale in the group’s flagship. Meanwhile, Adani Ports share price also fell after Deloitte Haskins and Sells resigned as the statutory auditor of the company, citing
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