SEBI v. Urja Global Limited and others (misleading announcements, 2025)

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In January 2025 a SEBI adjudicating officer penalised Urja Global Limited, a solar-equipment company, and 14 current or former directors and officers a combined Rs 90 lakh over misleading stock-exchange announcements and related disclosure and governance failures. The PFUTP element, penalised under section 15HA, covered the company and four executives.

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

9m INR

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What is alleged to have happened

This adjudication order of 29 January 2025 deals with Urja Global Limited, a listed company then describing itself as a solar-power business, and 17 other noticees who were directors, executives, compliance officers or independent directors at various times. It follows a complaint about misleading disclosures, notably an announced five-year supply arrangement with a Japanese pharmaceutical company, and an earlier 2022 SEBI order that had already restrained the company and several individuals from the market.

SEBI alleged that the company's announcements of agreements and memoranda of understanding between April 2018 and August 2019 misled investors, breaching regulations 3 and 4 of the PFUTP Regulations. It also alleged that the company and its board breached the listing-disclosure and governance rules, including on disclosure of material events, board oversight and the company's own code of conduct.

The adjudicating officer found the listing breaches proved for most noticees, and held that the announcements required disclosures that were not properly made. In a few instances the order says the evidence was insufficient, for example against the compliance officers and some independent directors in particular periods. The order is lengthy and addresses each announcement and each role separately.

The penalties total Rs 90 lakh. Urja Global was penalised Rs 30 lakh under section 15HA for the fraud finding, plus Rs 5 lakh under 15A and Rs 5 lakh under 15HB. Honey Gupta, Yogesh Kumar Goyal, Aditya Venkatesh and Dheeraj Sisodia were each penalised Rs 5 lakh under section 15HA, together with 15HB or related penalties of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. Further noticees were penalised Rs 1 lakh to Rs 3 lakh each under section 15HB or 15A. Payment is due within 45 days.

The record does not show any appeal, whether the penalties were paid, or any measured investor loss or trading gain.

This library tags the matter as misleading issuer disclosure. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's.

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Timeline

1. 2025-01-29 SEBI order

Primary documents

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