The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) announced on Friday that 10,980 entities had settled cases pertaining to alleged manipulation of illiquid stock options. The scheme was initially kept open for a period of three months from August 22 to November 21 and it was later extended till January 21, 2023, considering the interest of a large number of entities to avail the scheme. Sebi noted several instances of trades by a set of entities trading in the options segment of certain stocks listed on
