Supreme Court of India

Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Sunil Krishna Khaitan and Others

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Reported as [2022] 18 S.C.R. 987
Bench Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M. Trivedi JJ.
Decided 11 July 2022

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons and grounds, the Civil Appeals preferred by the Board are dismissed with the clarificati on as to the power of the Appellate Tribunal under Section 15-T of Chapter VI-A of the Act, which is confined to examination of correctness and legality of the order under challenge.

Judgment, page 66

From the headnote

SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeove rs) Regulations, 1997 –Regulation 10 – Interpretation o f Regulation 10 of the SEBI Regulations, 1997 – Held: Regulation 10 states th at no ‘acquirer’ shall acquire voting rights, which taken toge ther with the shares or voting rights held by him or by a ‘per son acting in concert’ would entitle the ‘acquirer’ to exercise 15% or mor e of the voting rights in the company, unless such ‘acquirer’ m akes public announcement to acquire shares in accordance with the regulati ons –The word ‘acquirer’ used in Regulation 10 takes its meaning from the

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