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Landmark JudgmentSecurities and Exchange Board of India / Securities Appellate Tribunal

From ₹67 crore to ₹20 lakh: SAT's proportionality discipline reshapes the Winsome Yarns GDR penalty

On 28 April 2026, SEBI passed a final order in the long-running Winsome Yarns GDR matter against Arun Panchariya, recomputing the penalty from approximately ₹67 crore to ₹20 lakh after the Securities Appellate Tribunal had repeatedly directed reassessment on proportionality grounds. The order is a worked example of how SAT's proportionality jurisprudence — the requirement that penalty quantum reflect comparable precedents, the role of mitigation evidence, and the limits on penalty when gains are not conclusively established — operates in the GDR-fraud space.

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