Supreme Court of India
Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Mega Corporation Limited
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What the Court ordered
For the reasons stated above, while we dismiss Civil Appeal No. 2104 of 2009 against the judgment of the Securities Appellate Tribunal in Appeal No. 60 of 2008 dated 15.10.2008, the general observations of the Tribunal that there is a right of cross-examination is hereby set aside.
Judgment, page 22
From the headnote
Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 – s s 11, 11B, 19, 15T – SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfa ir Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulation s, 2003 – Regulations 3(a), (b), (c) &(d) and 4(1), 4(2)k, 4( 2)(r) – Listed Company – Unusual Surge in Profits – In the instant case the listed respondent-company was engaged in the business of r adio taxi service coupled with trading of shares in a small me asure – The company’s share went unusually high from Rs 4.25 to Rs 43.85 and resultantly there was increase in the average month ly volume of shares to 1,56,22,583
Authorities it was built on
- 1987 Reserve Bank of India v. Peerless General Finance & Investment Co. Ltd. Ors. and Vice Versa
- 1981 Swadeshi Cotton Mills v. Union of India
- 2004 Clariant International Ltd. and Anr. v. Securities and Exchange Board of India
- 2016 Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Kishore R. Ajmera
- 2022 T. Takano v. Securities and Exchange Board of India & Anr.
- 2000 Aligarh Muslim University and Ors. v. Mansoor Ali Khan Etc.
- 2015 Videocon International Ltd. v. Securities & Exchange Board of India
- 1971 Bareilly Electricity Supply Co. Ltd. v. The Workmen & Ors.
- 1983 K. L. Tripathi v. State Bank of India and Others
- 2019 State Bank of India v. M/s. Jah Developers Pvt. Ltd. & Ors.
- 1997 Tara Chand Vyas v. Chairman and Disciplinary Authority and Ors.
- 2018 Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Rakhi Trading Private Ltd.
- 1963 Meenglas Tea Estate v. Its Workmen
- 2017 National Securities Depository Ltd. v. Securities and Exchange Board of India
- 2013 M/s. A.S. Motors Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Bses Rajdhani Power Ltd. & Anr v. Union of India and Ors
- 2025 State of Uttar Pradesh through Principal Secretary, Department of Panchayati Raj, Lucknow v. Ram Prakash Singh
- 2024 Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited v. Hirehalli Solar Power Project Llp & Others
Of those, 3 referred to
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