SEBI v. Suzlon Energy Limited and others (alleged inflated net worth and misstated accounts, 2025)

Dismissed

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A SEBI adjudicating officer examined allegations that Suzlon Energy had inflated its net worth and misstated its accounts through related-party transactions between 2014 and 2021, and disposed of the proceedings against the company and five officers without penalty. The order held the alleged violations were not established.

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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A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

On 27 June 2025 a SEBI adjudicating officer issued an order in the matter of Suzlon Energy Limited and five of its present or former officers: Tulsi R. Tanti, Vinod R. Tanti, Girish R. Tanti, Kirti J. Vagadia and Amit Agarwal. The proceedings began with a show cause notice of 9 November 2022 and covered financial years 2014-15 to 2019-20 and the first three quarters of 2020-21.

SEBI's case rested on a forensic audit. It alleged that the company's March 2014 sale of its operations and maintenance business to a wholly owned subsidiary for Rs 2,000 crore produced a booked gain of about Rs 1,923 crore even though little cash arrived for years, and that Rs 1,300 crore of apparent receipts was routed round between the companies on two days in March 2017. It also alleged that the same assets were used to book a second gain of about Rs 830 crore when the subsidiary's shares were later transferred within the group. The notice said these steps inflated net worth ahead of large impairments and helped the company raise equity. It further raised a related loan and investments of Rs 1,200 crore said not to exist. SEBI said these amounted to misrepresentation in the accounts, in breach of the PFUTP Regulations, listing rules and securities contracts law.

The officer did not accept the allegations. He found that the transactions had board and shareholder approval where needed and had been disclosed to the stock exchanges, that the management's business decisions in a difficult wind-energy market were not for him to second-guess, and that nothing was hidden from the public. He concluded that the alleged violations were not established, so he did not go on to consider penalties.

The notice was disposed of with no penalty and no direction against the company or any of the five individuals.

The record does not show whether SEBI appealed, or how the facts alleged would look on a different reading, since this record summarises the allegations and the officer's conclusion only. It records no criminal case. The order is a dismissal at the adjudication stage and not a finding of wrongdoing.

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Timeline

1. 2025-06-27 SEBI order

Primary documents

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• SEBI order
• Order (PDF)

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Record added October 8, 2026. submit a correction.