Suspended animation of scrips: Investors suffer and errant companies are let off the hook - Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine

Suspended animation of scrips: Investors suffer and errant companies are let off the hook - Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine: "After Moneylife wrote earlier about some 1,500 scrips being in suspended animation, even as the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is set to tweak the takeover and delisting rules, intermediaries and investors are writing to protest the lack of action.

Suspension of scrips, or delisting them, punishes investors and helps companies who want to ditch their retail shareholders after raising funds from them. Companies merely need to violate the listing rules by refusing to pay the fees or making correct disclosures. Meanwhile, investors are stuck. They continue to pay the annual depository charges and cannot even close the DP account without transferring the shares; re-materialising them involves a further cost on what could be a worthless share."