Supreme Court of India

Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju v. Securities and Exchange Board of India

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Reported as [2018] 5 S.C.R. 785
Bench R. F. Nariman and Navin Sinha JJ.
Decided 14 May 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that from the mere fact that the appellant promoted two joint venture companies, one of which ultimately merged with SCSL, and the fact that he was a co-brother of B. Ramalinga Raju, without more, cannot be stated to be foundational facts from which an inference of reasonably being expected to be in the k nowledge of confidential information can be formed.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 199 2: Regn 2(e)(i), 2(c) – Insider trading – Satyam scam – Appellant- co-brother of the Chairman of SCSL-Satyam Computer Services Limited, was executive director of SCSL from 1993 t o 2000 and non-executive director from 2000 to 2003 – Appellan t holding 76,50,000 equity shares of SCSL – Letter by former hairman of SCSL, to the stock exchange and SEBI that financial s tatement of the company had been grossly overstated – Show cause notice to appellant that being a promoter and director of SCSL, he was liable as an “insider”, having knowledge

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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