Skip to main content
Indian Kanoon - Search engine for Indian Law
Document Fragment View
Matching Fragments
"4.1 The movement of the price of the company on BSE is also detailed below, that clearly
reveals a pattern in the manipulation of the share price of the company:
Turbotech Engg BSE: 504358 | NSE: | ISIN: INE764M01018
Historic data for the period: Apr-2013 to Mar-2014 on BSE Change
Period High: 518.00 Period Low: 19.65 Change in market-cap:-94.91%
Date Open High Low Close
Mar 2014 28.80 28.80 19.65 19.65
Feb 2014 41.65 41.65 29.35 29.35
Jan 2014 65.55 65.55 42.45 42.45
Dec 2013 99.45 99.45 66.85 66.85
Nov 2013 148.25 148.25 101.45 101.45
Oct 2013 190.00 201.00 151.25 151.25
Sep 2013 145.10 190.60 145.10 190.25
Aug 2013 299.95 304.00 142.50 148.05
July 2013 491.30 512.00 282.90 290.65
June 2013 465.00 518.00 403.40 468.00
May 2013 483.80 498.00 427.30 453.90
Apr 2013 385.80 509.00 385.80 465.10
The AO observed that said company namely M/s Turbotech Engineering
Ltd. was not having any income/revenue during the year under
consideration and infact for last four years there was no revenue/income
earned by said company namely M/s Turbotech Engineering Ltd. and
there is a huge variation in price traded of share of M/s Turbotech
Engineering Limited which varied from Rs. 19.65 to Rs. 518/- per share
during financial year itself which is not supported by financials of the said
company and there is no economic rationale or justification for such price
movement in share prices of Turbotech Engineers Limited in last one year
ranging from Rs. 19.65 to Rs. 518/- per share. Thus, as per AO there is no
justification for such variation in share price of said company namely
M/s.Turbotech Engineering Ltd. from Rs. 19.65 to Rs. 518 per share
:- 10 -:
2014-15 , the assessee has sold 7900 shares of Turbotech Engineering
Limited for Rs. 40,22,940/- , translating into long term capital gains of Rs.
39,77,886/- , which long term capital gains were claimed as an exempt
u/s 10(38) of the 1961 Act . Thus, the share which were bought for
merely Rs. 15800/- ( Rs. 2 per shareX 7900 shares ) in November 2011
are sold during previous year 2013-14 relevant to impugned ay: 2014-15
:- 16 -:
on 23.09.2013 and 22.11.2013 i.e. within a short span of 2 years at a
huge profits translating into astronomical return/yield of more than
12500% per annum at a price of Rs. 509 per share. It is also observed
that share price of said company Turbotech Engineering Ltd. fluctuated
from Rs. 19.65 to Rs. 518 per share within the financial year 2013-14
itself . The assessee has sold share at a price of more than Rs. 500 per
share during previous year 2013-14 relevant to ay: 2014-15, while
purchase of said shares were made just two years back at Rs. 2 per share.
It is pertinent to mention that assessee has no experience in dealing in
share market and these transactions in shares of Turbotech Engineering
Ltd. are solitary transactions undertaken by assessee and no
transactions in shares were ever undertaken by assessee prior to and after
the aforesaid alleged transactions in shares of Turbotech Engineering
Ltd.. Investigations were conducted by various government and regulatory
and enforcement authorities/agencies of Government of India which
indicated that said company M/s Turbotech Engineering Ltd. is a
company with little or no inherent value and its shares prices were rigged
and manipulated with an intention of conversion of unaccounted money
into apparently genuine income to claim exemption u/s 10(38) of the
1961 Act. We have also observed that the AO independently carried out
enquires by issuing notices u/s 133(6) of the 1961 Act to Bombay Stock
Exchange. The BSE replied that assessee has not dealt in any other shares
except dealing in shares of Turbotech Engineering Ltd. . The assessee is
not a regular buyer and seller in shares and except for this alleged
:- 17 -:
transactions in Turbotech Engineering Ltd. , the assessee has not dealt
within any other shares even prior to it or even post to these alleged
transactions in Turbotech Engineering Ltd. . The assessee could not rebut
this assertion of the authorities below. These are the only transactions in
shares made by assessee in which she has claimed to have earned an
exempt income of Rs. 39,77,886/- on a meager investment of Rs.
15,800/- in a short period of 2 years giving astronomical return of more
than 12500% per annum , in dealing in shares of M/s Turbotech
Engineering Ltd. . We have also observed that SEBI has also
debarred/suspended this company namely M/s Turbotech Engineering Ltd.
effective from 07.01.2015 until further orders from trading/dealings of its
shares in stock exchanges. It has also emerged from inquiries conducted
by AO that certain Kolkatta based companies having little or no means
have bought entire shares of M/s Turbotech Engineering Ltd. and these
companies acted in concert with entry operators and share brokers to
rig/manipulate share price of Turbotech Engineering Ltd. with an intent
to defraud Revenue. The AO has deeply analyzed Balance Sheet and
Profit and Loss account of this company M/s Turbotech Engineering Ltd.
for five years from year ended 31.03.2012 till year ended 31.03.2016 and
it revealed that this company does not have any revenue/income and
expenses in all these years . Its profits were almost nil or negligible during
all these years. Its key financial years are extracted in assessment order
passed by AO which we have also reproduced in preceding para's of this
order (page 8-9). We have also carefully gone through the financial of this
:- 18 -:
transactions in shares of Turbotech Engineering Ltd. were not
bogus/sham transactions before the AO and rather it was a genuine
transactions. The power of learned CIT(A) are co-terminus with powers of
the AO and the assessee ought to have furnished necessary evidences and
explanations before learned CIT(A) to prove that the transaction for
purchase and sale of the shares were genuine .The assesse is claiming
exemption by way of long term capital gains claimed by it to be earned on
sale and purchase of Turbotech Engineering Ltd. by invoking provisions of
Section 10(38) of the 1961 Act and onus is on the assessee to prove that
these gains are genuine and assessee is entitled for exemption. The AO
has not only relied upon investigations carried by other government
agencies but has also conducted independent inquiries with BSE which
also revealed that the prices of the shares of Turbotech Engineering Ltd.
were rigged / manipulated with an intent to defraud revenue. The
financials of said company M/s Turbotech Engineering Limited wherein
there is no turnover/income earned and no expenses incurred by said
company for last five years also does not support price variation of Rs.
19.65 per share to Rs. 518 per share within previous year 2013-14
relevant to ay: 2014-15, which clearly points to manipulation and rigging
in share price of Turbotech Engineering Ltd. with malafide intention to
defraud revenue. It is unbelievable that assessee having never dealt in
share market will earn a yield / return of 12500% per annum within 2
years on her first dealing in stock market which also happened to be last
dealing undertaken by assessee in stock market. The claim of the
:- 20 -: