{"id":39053,"date":"2015-09-17T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=39053"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:59:54","slug":"participatory-notes-are-regulated-under-the-law-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/participatory-notes-are-regulated-under-the-law-hc","title":{"rendered":"Participatory notes are regulated under the law: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37805\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/4-years-jail-to-24-year-old-youth-for-stabbing-man\/jail-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"281,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?resize=281%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Participatory notes are regulated under the law: HC\" width=\"281\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participatory notes are regulated under the law: HC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delhi High Court today said that Participatory Notes (P-Notes) are not illegal and were regulated under the law.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva came while dismissing a PIL, which had claimed that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had wrongly made a statement that P-Notes were not illegal and sought action against him.<\/p>\n<p>The court passed the order after Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain told the bench that P-Notes are part of Offshore Derivative Instruments (ODI) which are issued by or on behalf of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) and are &#8220;generated, operated and destroyed&#8221; outside India.<\/p>\n<p>The ASG also said that P-Notes were regulated instruments and placed before the court the SEBI (FPI) Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>After going through the regulations, the court observed, &#8220;it appears that ODIs include P-Notes and such other instruments which are entered into by FPIs in relation to securities listed or proposed to be listed in stock exchanges in India&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that FPIs were functioning under a regulated regime.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to the minister&#8217;s statement, the court said he had only stated no knee-jerk reaction would be taken with regard to stipulating or not stipulating any norms stricter than those already in place under the SEBI regulations on FPI.<\/p>\n<p>The court also said that the special investigative team set up by Supreme Court to probe the black money issue had only suggested stricter norms for regulating P-Notes.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that since the entire premise of the PIL by advocate M L Sharma was based on the premise that P-Notes were &#8220;illegal&#8221; and not regulated, his plea has no merit.<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, did not impose any costs upon Sharma after he withdrew the personal allegations and innuendos he had made in the petition against the minister.<\/p>\n<p>( Source -PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court today said that Participatory Notes (P-Notes) are not illegal and were regulated under the law. 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