Mint Explainer: Former Sebi chief Buch and five others face fraudulent listing allegations
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A former chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), three current whole-time members (WTMs), a former BSE chairman, and the current BSE managing director and CEO have filed petitions challenging a Mumbai court's order that called for the registration of a first information report (FIR) against them over an allegedly fraudulent listing of a company on BSE. Justice SG Dige of the Bombay High Court set to hear the petitions today.
Mint breaks down the details of the case. The allegations are against former Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch; current WTMs Ashwani Bhatia, Ananth Narayan G, and Kamlesh Varshney; former BSE chairman Pramod Agarwal; and current BSE managing director and chief executive officer Sundararaman Ramamurthy. The complainant is Sapan Shrivastava, a Dombivli resident who claims to be a journalist.
Shrivastava has alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations in his complaint, which stated that Shrivastava and his family invested in shares of Cals Refineries Ltd, a company listed on BSE Ltd since 13 December 1994. He claimed that the company was listed without proper regulatory approvals. Also read | Mint Explainer: How Sebi's new proposals aim to curb risks in the derivatives market In his complaint, he said that an RTI response from Sebi showed that Cals did not meet the listing requirements and did not obtain the necessary no-objection certificate from the regulator or exchange, making its listing illegal.
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