Appeal allowed; impugned order quashed as regulator failed to prove nexus or manipulative scheme; sale genuine - s.12A(a)-(c), Regs 3(a)-(d),4(1),4(2)(a)

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....AT allowed the appeal and quashed the impugned order against the appellants. The Tribunal held that the regulator failed to establish a nexus between the Group-1 entities (appellants) and Group-2 counter-parties and that the appellants traded only on two days of the investigation period at market price. The evidence did not support a finding of a coordinated manipulative scheme or artificial inflation of volumes in the illiquid scrip. The appellants' sale of their entire shareholding in Patch 1 was held to be genuine disposition upon observing price movement and, therefore, not violative of section 12A(a)-(c) of the SEBI Act or Regulations 3(a)-(d) and 4(1), 4(2)(a) of the PFUTP Regulations.....