Harshad Mehta used loopholes in the banking system in the early 1990s to divert funds of Rs. 4,000 crore from various banks and trigger a spike in the SENSEX. As a stockbroker, he exploited the ready forward system and issued fake bank receipts to borrow funds without proper collateral. His scam was exposed by journalist Sucheta Dalal in 1992 and resulted in reforms to tighten regulation of the stock market and banking system in India. Mehta was later arrested and banned from the stock market for over 70 criminal offenses related to misappropriation of funds.

1. Harshad Mehta Scam
MADE BY : AKSHAY

3.  Licensing system
 No permission for Liberalization, Privatization,
Globalization
 Government intervention in business
 There were no permission for FII’s & FDI’s

4.  There was not specific act passed for SEBI by the
parliament
 Open-Outcry system
 No Circuit Breakers

5.  Name: Harshad Shantilal Mehta
 Born in: 29 July 1953
 Died in: 31 December 2001
 Profession: Stockbroker
 He earned degree in Bachelor of Commerce
 Started his working life as an employee of the
New India Assurance Company

6.  In the early eighties he quit his job and sought a
job with stock broker P. Ambalal affiliated to
Bombay Stock Exchange
 He became a jobber on BSE for stock broker P.D.
Shukla after that
 In 1981 he became a sub-broker for stock brokers
J.L. Shah and Nandalal Sheth
 He took advantages of loopholes in banking
system
 He triggered SENSEX in 1992 & made the scam
by diverting funds of Rs.4,000 crore

7.  On April 23, 1992, journalist Sucheta Dalal
exposed Mehta's scam
 She is columnist in Times Of India
Sucheta DalalSucheta Dalal

8.  Mehta had used 2 instruments in this scam
1)Ready Forward Deal
2)Bank Receipts

9.  A secured short-term (typically 15-day) loan from one
bank to another
 Bank lends against government securities
 A broker usually brings together two banks for which
he is paid a commission
 The securities and payments were delivered through
the broker in the settlement process
 In such settlement the banks may not know with
whom they are dealing

10.  Settlement Process
 Payment of cheques
 Dispensing of securities

11.  In a RF deal securities were not moved back and forth
in actuality
 The borrower, i.e. the seller of securities, gave the
buyer of the securities a Bank Receipt
 Bank receipts serve three functions
1) Confirms the sale of securities
2) States that the securities are held by the seller in
trust for the buyer
3) Acts as a receipt for the received money by the
selling bank
 In this scam Bank of Karad & Metropolitan Co-
operative Bank had issued fake BR

12. Borrower bank
Broker
Harshad Mehta
Lender bank
Issue fake BR
Funds

14.  Mehta had by then swindled the banks of a staggering
Rs 4,000 crore
 Bribery case on P. V. Narsimha Rao
 Stay on Liberalisation
 Holding banks of fake BR had to face losses
 BR was removed by RBI
 The chairman of the vijaya bank committed suicide over

15.  He was later charged with 72 criminal offenses, and
more than 600 civil action suits were filed against him
 He was arrested and banished from the stock market
 Mehta and his brothers were arrested by the CBI on
November 9, 1992 for allegedly misappropriating
more than 27 lakh shares of about 90 companies

16. Harshad Mehta was brave stock broker. He
knew the loopholes in banking system as well as
how to exploit that loopholes. His whole intension
to do this was to rise in SENSEX.

17. Thank You…!!!Thank You…!!!