DHFL shares fall 10% to hit 52-week low after CDSL freezes promoters' shareholding

New Delhi: Shares of DHFL hit lower circuit by slipping almost 10 percent to its 52-week low on Wednesday after CDSL freezed shareholding of the mortgage lender’s promoters due to delay in announcement of financial earnings. The stock nosedived 9.86 percent to Rs 26.05 on the BSE. [caption id=“attachment_6023581” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters.[/caption] On the NSE, the scrip tanked 9.84 percent to Rs 26.10. The shares hit the lower circuit on both the stock exchanges. Leading depository CDSL freezed shareholding of the promoters of debt-ridden mortgage lender DHFL due to delay in announcement of the company’s financial earnings, sources had said earlier. In a filing to stock exchanges on Monday, DHFL said the meeting of its board of directors is scheduled to be held on 17 October, 2019, to consider and approve the un-audited financial results for the first quarter ended 30 June. “Any action taken by the stock exchanges or depositories as a result of a delay in submission of the above financial results by the company is purely procedural in nature and does not materially impact the company or the promoters,” DHFL said.