Sebi investigated 212 cases in Apr-Dec FY17

Markets regulator Sebi took up as many as 212 cases for investigations in the first nine months of the last fiscal, making it the highest in more than six years.
The markets regulator has completed probe in 74 cases during the period under review, showed the latest data with Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
These cases were related to market manipulation and price rigging, violation of insider trading as well as takeover norms among others.
As per the data, the total number of cases taken up for investigations stood at 212 during April-December period of 2016-17, much higher than 133 probed in the entire preceding fiscal.

Sebi had investigated 70 cases in 2014-15; 108 matters in 2013-14; 155 in 2012-13; 154 in 2011-12; and 104 in 2010-11.
Out of 212 cases investigated in the first nine-months of 2016-17, as many as 174 were related to market manipulation and price rigging followed by violation of insider trading norms (26).