SEBI v. Burnpur Cement Limited (unrecorded tax demands in 2018-19 accounts, 2023)

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In June 2023 a SEBI adjudicating officer found that Burnpur Cement published 2018-19 financial statements that did not treat tax demands of Rs 17.53 crore under the applicable accounting standard and did not tell the exchanges about them. The company was fined Rs 6,00,000.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

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Prejudgment interest

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Total relief

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Alleged gain

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Penalty as published

600k INR

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What is alleged to have happened

This adjudication order was issued on 14 June 2023 by Amar Navlani, a SEBI adjudicating officer. The only noticee is Burnpur Cement Limited, a listed company. SEBI examined its financial statements for the financial year 2018-19.

The examination concerned income-tax assessment orders and demand notices of December 2018 for the years 2010-11 to 2016-17. According to the order, the tax department assessed tax and interest of Rs 17.53 crore, computed additional income of Rs 63.11 crore, and imposed a penalty of the same Rs 17.53 crore. SEBI alleged that the company did not account for or disclose these in line with Ind AS 37, which governs provisions and contingent liabilities, so its statements did not give a true and fair view, and that it failed to inform the exchanges of a material event. It cited the listing regulations and Regulation 4(2)(f), (k) and (r) of the PFUTP Regulations.

The company argued that the matter was a contingent liability under appeal and so needed neither a provision nor a separate disclosure. The adjudicating officer was not persuaded, noting that the demand had crystallised and was not properly treated or explained, and found the violations established.

The penalty was Rs 5,00,000 under section 15HA and Rs 1,00,000 under section 15HB of the SEBI Act, Rs 6,00,000 in all, with credit given for the absence of any past violations and for a change of management in October 2019. No investor loss or gain to the company was quantified.

The order is an administrative penalty, not a criminal judgment, and describes no criminal case. The record does not show the outcome of the company's tax appeals, whether it appealed this order, or whether the penalty was paid. The case concerns financial statement presentation rather than any trading scheme.

This library tags the matter as misleading issuer disclosure. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's.

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Timeline

1. 2023-06-14 SEBI order

Primary documents

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• SEBI order
• Order (PDF)

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Record added October 8, 2026. submit a correction.