Protect Power of Attorney (PoA) from misuse by Stock Broker/Brokerages

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How to avoid misuse of Power of Attorney (PoA) by Stock Broker/Brokerages or Relatives?

How to protect your shares and mutual funds in Demat Account from Power of Attorney (PoA) holder?
How to Freeze and Unfreeze the holdings in Demat Account?
How to secure Demat Account even after giving PoA to Stock / Brokerages or Relatives?

This article requires you to register for the easiest facility of CDSL for your Demat Account . Please read our blog on how to register for easiest.

You can log in to your easiest account and use the option to Freeze holding for debit instruction. You can lock holding in your Demat Account in part or full or even part quantity of particular Scrip/ISIN. You may have given PoA to Stock Broker/Brokerage/Relatives, you can make sure that PoA given by you cannot be used for the period, which you may so desire, as ISIN can be frozen and you may unfreeze when you want to sale/transfer particular scrip and quantity. By this process, you can make PoA inactive for whatever period, you would like.

Login to easiest

For that go to CDSL’s website www.cdslindia.com then click on Login-New System My easi (BO/CM) under the Quick Links section. It will take you to the CDSL's Login page.

How to freeze and unfreeze holding?

In CDSL easiest account user will get an option of freeze or unfreeze holding. With this option, the user can freeze the shares in the account. This option is available in CDSL user login under the freeze menu.

To freeze the ISIN

Go to the Freeze menu then select Setup & click on New Setup
Then select the freeze type. (To freeze whole account select BO & to freeze one or more ISIN select BO-ISIN.) Then select the quantity type Full or Partial. ISIN can be freeze for Debit, Credit or Both. User can set for a Current Date as well as a Future Date
After filling all the details click on save then the confirmation window will pop up click on OK
Then a verification window will open again click on ok
Then again go to Freeze menu -> Setup

There you’ll see the holding for which you sent the freeze request

Then select the holdings and click on commit and give approval

The user has the option to modify/delete only those freeze requests which have been set up by the user and which have not been verified by the user.

Unfreeze

Unfreeze option is also available under freeze menu. User can unfreeze only those requests which are currently in a frozen state.

Go to Freeze menu then click on Unfreeze & click on Unfreeze Setup
Then select the transaction ID and click on Go to Unfreeze Commit , it will unfreeze the frozen holdings.

User can also print the acknowledgement copy of their freeze and unfreeze request, by going to Print Acknowledgement Copy in Freeze Menu

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Guest - Shrikanth S
about 10 months ago

i have shares at 5paisa demat account and would like to transfer the shares to zerodha account. if i do this process through CSDL easiest will it impact anything for future share selling at zerodha? like each sell i need to give DIS slip or so?
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With CDSL easiest you can transfer shares from one DEMAT account to another online. However, we at Zerodha, recommend using DIS (delivery instruction slips) for share transfers. When you register for easiest, the broker loses the POA over your DEMAT which would mean that you cannot sell shares from your holdings using your trading platform because the broker will no longer be able to debit your shares from Demat. You will now have the POA over Demat as a result of which you will be able to transfer shares using easiest, but this will be a hassle for you in many ways, not advisable. DIS is best for share transfers.

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