SEBI Pulls Up Paytm Founder, Director on IPO Breaches: Report

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and other board members who held roles during the firm's November 2021 IPO over alleged misrepresentation of facts. SEBI alleged that grant of 21 million employee stock options (ESOPs) to Sharma were in violation of its rules on grant of shares-based employee benefits.