Mumbai, March 4 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed operation of order of a special court, directing the city police to register FIR (first information report) against former chairperson of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Madhabi Puri Buch, along with five others, for their alleged involvement in stock market fraud case, till four weeks.
A bench, headed by single judge Justice Shivkumar Dige, passed an order during the hearing of the plea moved by Buch and three current SEBI whole-time directors-Ashwani Bhatia, Ananth Narayan G and Kamlesh Chandra Varshney-as well as two BSE officials, managing director and CEO Sundararaman Ramamurthy, and former chairman and public interest director Pramod Agarwal.
The petitions so...