Sebi had alleged that Reliance Strategic Investments, along with Morgan Stanley France (MSF), had knowingly traded in the puts of strike price 11,400 PE at a discount of 15%, 35% and 37% to the intrinsic value of the put options on July 31, August 8, and August 10, 2017, respectively.
"To hold a simple one-way trade as manipulative when it is not a circular or reversal trade and in the absence of any shred of evidence of mutual arrangement with a motive to manipulate the market, the impugned order cannot be sustained and is quashed," the tribunal said in its 33-page order on Wednesday.
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NEW DELHI: The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Wednesday quashed a Sebi order imposing a penalty of Rs 7 lakh on Jio Financial Services in case.
The regulator alleged that the trade was done on the basis of mutual arrangement. This amounted to active concealment of fair price of the option and resulted into manipulation of the price of the contract, which had the effect of potentially misleading investors with regard to likely future price of the underlying. It had, thereby, violated Sebi s Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Regulations, said the regulator.