Regulator bars 39 entities for alleged manipulation of RRP Semicon share price

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday passed an interim order in the matter of RRP Semiconductor for alleged share price manipulation and barred 39 entities from dealing in the shares of the company.

The regulator said the stock has risen over 700 times in just 19 months. It said the company’s shares rose from ₹15 in April 2024 to ₹10,887 by October 2025, a surge that was not supported by its financials or business fundamentals.

During its investigation, Sebi observed that there was a coordinated network of promoters, preferential allottees, off-market transferees and a set of trading entities, who artificially inflated the share price of RRP Semiconductor.

The regulator said the scheme appears to have commenced with the acquisition of control of the company by Ira Mishra, the daughter of Ramesh Mishra, who was subsequently appointed as a director in the company. This was followed by a significant increase in the share capital of RRP through preferential allotment of shares to select entities.

The primary beneficiary of the allotment was one Rajendra Chodankar, who holds 74.5% of the share capital of RRP post allotment. Sumita Mishra, wife of Ramesh Mishra, was also a preferential allottee. Of the remaining preferential allottees, three were brought in by Ramesh Mishra and the rest byChodankar, it said.

The preferential allotment was accompanied by the company altering its MoA and changing its name to “RRP Semiconductor”, apparently to showcase its future forays into the promising semiconductor space. Simultaneously, the public shareholding (a small part of which was in demat mode) was fragmented and distributed through a chain of off-market transfers to multiple entities in small quantities, Sebi said in its order.”The off-market transferees subsequently sold shares of RRP in minuscule quantities, largely to entities that consistently placed large buy orders at upper circuit limits and contributed significantly to the total market positive LTP. The trading pattern, characterised by insignificant sell quantities and aggressive buy orders at circuit limits, is prima facie not reflective of genuine market behaviour, but indicative of a pre-arranged and manipulative strategy to artificially inflate the price of the scrip of RRP,” Sebi whole-time member Amarjeet Singh said in his order.