PRESS RELEASE - SEBI

March 11, 2005
PR No. 54/2005

Registrations of eight stock brokers, cancelled

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has passed orders dated February 28, 2005 canceling the certificate of registrations of the following eight stock brokers with immediate effect:
 

Sr. No.

Name of the broker

SEBI Regn. No.

Exchange

1

Atlantis Stocks Ltd.

INB230924731

NSE

2

Nagarjuna Securities Ltd.

INB230713634

NSE

3

Prasad & Co. (P) Ltd.

INB230857337

NSE

4

Prasad & Co. (P) Ltd.

INB200928939

OTCEI

5

Marg Securities Ltd.

INB200608831

OTCEI

6

Sanjay Bansal

INB241037119

ICSEI

7

Kanak Nahata

INB240339011

ICSEI

8

Mukesh Kumar Jain

INB240324419

ICSEI


NSE - National Stock Exchange
OTCEI � Over The Counter Exchange of India
ICSEI � Inter Connected Stock Exchange of India

The aforesaid eight stock brokers were expelled by the respective Stock Exchanges and ceased to be members of the respective Exchanges. They have also failed in paying the fees to the board. They have, thus, failed to fulfill the pre-requisite conditions of registration as stock broker with SEBI. Their registrations have been cancelled in terms of Sub-Regulation (5) of Regulation 16 of SEBI (Procedure for Holding Enquiry by Enquiry Officer and Imposing Penalty) Regulations, 2002.
 
 
Mumbai
 
March 11, 2005