The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) imposed a penalty of Rs 2 lakh every on Gautam Dutta, CEO—operations of PVR Ltd, NC Gupta, firm secretary of PVR Ltd, and Pramod Arora, chief improvement officer of PVR Ltd, for non-disclosure of their impugned trades to PVR Ltd beneath SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations and for failing to acquire pre-clearance of trades within the shares of the corporate.
The order, handed by adjudicating officer (AO) N Hariharan on Friday, famous that Dutta and Arora additionally traded in the course of the buying and selling window closure interval regardless of receiving data from the corporate relating to closure of buying and selling window, in violation of Clause 3.2 and three.3 of mannequin code of conduct for prevention of insider buying and selling for listed firms.
According to the Sebi order, the trades within the shares of the corporate relate to the interval between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2017 (“investigation period”).
The AO, nonetheless, additionally took word of the submission of the noticees that no illegal good points or avoidance of losses is alleged to have been made by them resulting from failure to reveal, acquire pre-clearance or commerce throughout buying and selling window closure.