Supreme Court of India

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

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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 clarification 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 Takeovers) Regulations, 1997 –Regulation 10 – Interpretation of Regulation 10 of the SEBI Regulations, 1997 – Held: Regulation 10 states that no ‘acquirer’ shall acquire voting rights, which taken together with the shares or voting rights held by him or by a ‘person acting in concert’ would entitle the ‘acquirer’ to exercise 15% or more of the voting rights in the company, unless such ‘acquirer’ makes public announcement to acquire shares in accordance with the regulations –The word ‘acquirer’ used in Regulation 10 takes its meaning from the…

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