If you hold shares in any of the suspected shell companies that have been banned from trade following the Sebi order on Monday, you have a genuine reason to worry – at least for now.
On Monday, market regulator Sebi directed the stock exchanges to ban trading in shares of 331 suspected shell companies and placed them under a graded surveillance measure (GSM) stage VI, where trading in the security is allowed only once a month with “surveillance deposit” of three times the trade value.
According to estimates, mutual funds and investors collectively own shares worth nearly Rs