SEBI v. Tirupati Fincorp Ltd. (preferential issue proceeds, 2022)
Judgment entered
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In May 2022 a SEBI adjudicating officer found that Tirupati Fincorp, a Jaipur finance company, used the money from a 2013 preferential share issue for fabric trading rather than its stated purposes, and fined it Rs 5,00,000 under the fraud provision plus further Rs 5,00,000 amounts for listing breaches. The order does not give a single total.
The record
| Agency | SEBI (India) |
|---|---|
| Date filed | 2022-05-27 |
| Date resolved | 2022-05-27 |
| Court | SEBI adjudicating officer |
| Status | judgment |
| Asset class | equities |
| Instruments | Tirupati Fincorp Ltd. shares (2013 preferential allotment) |
| Venue | BSE |
| Criminal parallel | No |
| Defendants | Tirupati Fincorp Ltd. |
| Techniques | Misleading issuer disclosure |
What was ordered
- Civil penalty
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- Disgorgement
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- Prejudgment interest
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- Total relief
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- Alleged gain
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What is alleged to have happened
The order of 27 May 2022 concerns Tirupati Fincorp Ltd. (formerly Surya Globefin Limited), a non-bank finance company listed on BSE since 2015 and later suspended. On 7 January 2013 it allotted 20,00,000 shares at Rs 21 each, raising Rs 4,20,00,000, with objects described as long-term resources, a stronger balance sheet and working capital.
SEBI alleged that the company did not use the money for those objects and failed to report the deviation to the exchange. The notice also mentioned the cancellation of its registration as a non-bank finance company by the Reserve Bank of India. The charges rested on Regulations 3 and 4 of the PFUTP Regulations and on the listing agreement and listing regulations, brought under section 15HA of the SEBI Act and section 23E of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act.
The adjudicating officer rejected the company's argument that fabric trading was within its charter, noting that about 96 percent of its revenue in 2012-13 came from fabric sales although it was supposed to be a finance business. He also found it could not properly account for about Rs 2.05 crore shown as loans and advances. He concluded that the proceeds were misused in breach of Regulations 3(b) to (d) and 4(1) and 4(2)(f) of the PFUTP Regulations, and that the company failed to file quarterly statements of deviation, although he held that not disclosing a shareholder ratification vote was not itself a breach.
The penalties are Rs 5,00,000 under section 15HA for the PFUTP breach and Rs 5,00,000 each for the listing-related violations, payable within 45 days. Because the order states the listing penalty per violation, this record does not give a single total. The officer treated the gain, investor loss and repetition as unquantified and took into account that more than nine years had passed.
The record does not show whether the directors were proceeded against in this order, whether the penalties were paid, or what investors lost. This order deals with the company only.
This library tags the matter as misleading issuer disclosure, because the finding is that the stated use of the issue proceeds was not the real one. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's.
For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the order.
What technique is this, and how does it work?
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Timeline
- 2022-05-27 SEBI adjudication order (27 May 2022)
Primary documents
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