Designated-person trading block on Zerodha (SEBI PIT trading window)

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A designated-person trading block on Kite is a PAN-level freeze that stops an employee or insider of a listed company from trading in that company’s security while the company’s trading window is closed under the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations 2015 . The block is set by the listed company and applied through the depository, so Zerodha renders it but cannot lift it.

The exact message on Kite reads: “Trading is blocked in (instrument) for this session as you are a designated person of the company.” It is not a glitch and not a margin rejection. It is the visible end of a regulatory chain that runs from the SEBI PIT Regulations, through a company compliance officer who maintains a list of designated persons, to the depository that freezes the matching PANs against the company’s scrip for the closure window. This article covers what the message says, the precise regulatory cause, who counts as a designated person, the contra-trade and pre-clearance rules that sit alongside the window closure, and exactly how the block is lifted.

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Designated-person trading block on Zerodha (SEBI PIT trading window)