SEBI v. Arun Panchariya (Texmo Pipes & Products GDR issue, 2023)

Judgment entered

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On 31 July 2023 a SEBI adjudicating officer, re-deciding after a tribunal remand, again penalised Arun Panchariya Rs 25 lakh over the April 2011 loan-funded GDR issue of Texmo Pipes & Products.

The record

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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Penalty as published

2.5m INR

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars. This regulator states penalties in INR. The figure is recorded as published and is not converted, so it does not appear in the USD totals or medians used elsewhere on this site.

What is alleged to have happened

SEBI adjudicating officer Vijayant Kumar Verma issued this order on 31 July 2023 against Arun Panchariya in the matter of Texmo Pipes & Products Limited, whose shares trade on the BSE and NSE. A June 2022 order had imposed a Rs 25 lakh penalty, but the Securities Appellate Tribunal quashed it in March 2023 because no show cause notice had been served, and sent the case back.

SEBI's investigation covered March and April 2011. It found that Texmo raised USD 9.99 million, about Rs 44.18 crore, through GDRs issued on 11 April 2011 and that Vintage FZE was the only subscriber, using a loan facility from EURAM Bank for the full amount. The company pledged the GDR proceeds as security. Vintage repaid about USD 6.50 million in instalments and then defaulted on the rest, and the bank set the unpaid balance of about USD 3.49 million against the pledged proceeds. SEBI therefore alleged that GDRs worth that sum had effectively been issued free of cost, and that converted shares were sold on the BSE and NSE for about Rs 14.82 crore.

SEBI charged Mr Panchariya, whom it linked to Vintage, with acting as a party to a fraudulent scheme, in breach of section 12A of the SEBI Act and Regulations 3(a)-(d) and 4(1) of the PFUTP Regulations 2003. After a long review of his objections the officer held the charge made out and imposed the same penalty as in the earlier order.

The penalty was Rs 25 lakh under section 15HA. No market restriction was imposed in this order.

The record does not show whether he appealed again or paid, or the loss to Indian investors who bought the converted shares. Other orders against him over other issuers are catalogued separately.

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Timeline

1. 2023-07-31 SEBI adjudication order on remand

Primary documents

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Record added October 8, 2026. submit a correction.