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-====== Bonus Shares not Reflected: What to Do Next ======+====== Bonus shares not reflected in your demat account: what to check ======
  
-**Use this guide when bonus shares not reflected is causing delay, loss of money, record mismatch or denial of service. The aim is to turn scattered calls and counter visits into a documentary trail that a nodal officer, regulator, ombudsman, consumer forum, RERA authority, department or court can act on.** +**Reviewed on:** 2026-06-12.
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-**Reviewed on:** 2026-05-30.+
  
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-//Keep the bonus shares not reflected evidence in one dated file before escalating.// +**The direct answer: if you held the shares on the record date, the bonus shares belong to you, and since October 2024 SEBI requires them to be credited to your demat account and made tradeable within two working days of the record date.** If the credit has not come, first confirm you actually held the shares in your own demat account on the record date. Then check your transaction statement, because the credit appears as a separate corporate-action entry, sometimes under a temporary ISIN. If it is genuinely missing, write to the company's registrar and transfer agent (RTA), and escalate on [[https://scores.sebi.gov.in|SEBI SCORES]] if the RTA does not fix it.
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-===== 30-Second Answer ===== +
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-If bonus shares not reflected, collect the account, application, transaction, policy, property, employee, pension, scholarship or bill reference and send one precise written complaint to the office that can correct the record or release the money. Ask for a written reason if the request is refused or kept pending. Escalate with the same evidence bundle to AMC, RTA, depository participant, broker grievance cell and SEBI SCORES. Use RTI only for records held by a public authority: file movement, deficiency notes, dispatch records, sanction details, payment advice, inspection reports or reasons recorded on file. +
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-===== Key Facts Box ===== +
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-  * **Problem:** Bonus Shares not Reflected. +
-  * **Primary remedy:** written correction, release, refund, credit, certificate, revised bill, status update or reasoned order. +
-  * **First forum:** the service provider or office holding the original record. +
-  * **Escalation trigger:** no reply, vague reply, repeated portal closure, wrong deficiency, or refusal to provide a written reason. +
-  * **RTI role:** obtain public records; do not draft RTI as a grievance. +
-  * **Important caution:** preserve limitation periods for consumer, RERA, insurance, labour, securities or court remedies. +
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-===== Who This Problem Affects ===== +
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-This problem usually affects people who have already completed the basic requirement but cannot get the final credit, correction, record or certificate. It may be an account holder waiting for a bank credit, an investor waiting for securities action, a property owner facing a land-record mismatch, a flat buyer dealing with a builder, a patient disputing a bill, a policyholder waiting for claim money, an employee correcting payroll records, a pensioner waiting for revision, a student waiting for payment or a vendor waiting for treasury release. +
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-The issue becomes serious when a deadline is attached. A delayed maturity credit can affect household cash flow; a frozen demat account can stop trading or redemption; a mutation or registry mismatch can block sale or loan; a billing dispute can hold discharge papers; a payroll error can affect tax filings; a pension or scholarship delay can affect monthly survival; and a government payment delay can strain a small contractor. Treat the matter as a record problem first: identify the record, who owns it, what is wrong, and what exact correction or release you want. +
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-===== Documents Required ===== +
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-  * Reference number: account, folio, demat, policy, claim, employee, PPO, scholarship, invoice, tender, property or application number. +
-  * Proof of entitlement: receipt, statement, maturity advice, sanction order, allotment letter, bill, certificate, contract, approval, payslip, passbook or portal status. +
-  * Proof of problem: non-credit statement, rejection screen, mismatch extract, pending status, incorrect bill, wrong name, unpaid ledger or deficiency memo. +
-  * Complaint trail: emails, portal tickets, branch acknowledgements, dispatch proof, courier tracking and call summaries backed by dates. +
-  * Identity and authority proof where needed, with unnecessary numbers masked in public complaints. +
-  * A one-page chronology listing date, event, person or office contacted, and the reply received. +
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-===== Step-by-Step Resolution Process ===== +
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-**Step 1: freeze the evidence.** Download the latest status, statement, bill, ledger, certificate extract or portal page. Do this before the record changes. Save screenshots with the date visible where possible and export statements as PDFs. +
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-**Step 2: define the exact defect.** Write one sentence that explains the problem: money matured but was not credited, TDS was wrongly deducted, closure was refused, nominee update was rejected, mutation was ordered but not implemented, the bill contains duplicate charges, claim documents are shown missing, or payment is approved but unreleased. A narrow statement gets better results than a long grievance history.+
  
-**Step 3: send a first-level complaint.** Send the complaint to the office that controls the record. Include only decisive documents. Ask for the specific remedy and a written reason if the remedy is denied. Keep the tone factual and avoid threats in the first complaint.+===== Record date versus credit date =====
  
-**Step 4: ask for a reasoned closure.** If the complaint is closed, ask which record was checked, who approved the closure, what rule or clause was relied upon, and what document is missing. This creates a useful trail for the next level.+A bonus issue runs on dates, and most "missing bonus" complaints dissolve once the dates are read correctly.
  
-**Step 5: escalate with continuity.** Do not open a fresh story at every level. Attach the first complaint, acknowledgement, closure reply and the decisive evidence. State that the earlier complaint failed to resolve bonus shares not reflected and ask for review by the nodal authority.+  * **Record date:** the company checks the depository records (NSDL and CDSL) at the end of this day. Whoever holds the shares then gets the bonus. Under the T+1 settlement regime the ex-date and record date generally fall on the same day, so shares bought on the ex-date itself do not qualify. 
 +  * **Deemed allotment date:** the next working day after the record date. 
 +  * **Credit and trading date:** within two working days of the record date under SEBI's September 2024 circular on bonus issue timelines. Before that circular, credits routinely took two weeks; that old expectation still causes panic.
  
-**Step 6: use the correct external forum.** Use SEBI SCORES or the other official source linked below where it fits the subject. For consumer-service disputes, consider National Consumer Helpline and e-Daakhil. For public departments, CPGRAMS, state grievance portals and RTI may help. For high-value or time-sensitive cases, take professional advice before limitation expires.+So the honest first question is: did you own the shares, settled in your demat, on the record date? Shares bought one day before the record date under T+1 normally settle in time. Shares lying with the broker in a pool account, pledged shares being invoked, or shares in transit can complicate the snapshot.
  
-===== Escalation Matrix =====+===== Five checks in your own records before you complain =====
  
-^ Stage ^ Where to go ^ What to ask for ^ +  - Open the demat transaction statement (not just holdings) for the week after the record date, on the NSDL or CDSL app, in the IDeAS or Easi portal, or in your broker app. Corporate-action credits sometimes do not trigger an SMS. 
-| Level 1 | Local office, branch, helpdesk, builder CRM, hospital desk, HR, registrar, treasury or portal support | Correction, release, refund, credit, certified copy, revised bill or written reason | +  - Check for a separate line with a different ISIN. Bonus shares can sit under a temporary ISIN until listing approval, after which they merge with the main holding. 
-| Level 2 | Nodal officer, regional office, grievance officer, registrar, accounts officer, RERA desk or department head | Review of the first reply with document-wise findings | +  - Check the consolidated account statement (CAS) emailed monthly by the depository. It lists the bonus credit with the date. 
-| Level 3 | Regulator, ombudsman, CPGRAMS, SCORES, RBI CMS, Bima Bharosa, consumer forum, labour authority or state grievance portal | Independent review, compensation where permitted, and direction to decide | +  - If you hold through more than one demat account, confirm which account held the shares on the record date. The bonus goes to that account. 
-| Level 4 | Consumer commission, RERA authority, tribunal, civil court, writ court or other competent forum | Binding order, interim relief, recovery, correction or enforcement |+  - Fractional entitlement is not credited as shares. In a 1:2 bonus with 15 shares held, you get 7 shares, and the fraction is sold by the company and paid to you in cash. Check your bank statement for that credit.
  
-===== Copy-Paste Complaint Template =====+===== If the shares are genuinely missing: the RTA route =====
  
-Subject: Request to resolve bonus shares not reflected+The depositories only mirror what the company allots. The allotment file is built by the company's RTA, usually KFin Technologies or MUFG Intime (formerly Link Intime). Mismatches in the demat ID, a frozen account, or unresolved KYC can push your entitlement into the company's escrow or suspense account instead of your demat.
  
-I am facing the following issue: bonus shares not reflected.+Write to the RTA's investor service email (listed on the company's website under "Investor Contacts" and in the stock exchange announcement of the bonus). Give your name, PAN, DP ID and client ID, the number of shares held on the record date, and a demat holding statement of the record date as proof. Ask three questions: was your entitlement included in the allotment, to which demat ID was it credited, and if it is lying in suspense, what is needed to release it. Copy the company secretary of the company. RTAs are required to resolve investor service requests within defined timelines, and a precise email with the holding proof usually gets the credit released in days.
  
-Reference number: [account / folio / policy / employee / property / invoice / application number] +If you still hold the original shares in physical form, note that bonus entitlements are now issued only in demat form. You will need to open a demat account and complete the RTA's KYC process before the suspense shares can be released.
-Date of event or request: [date] +
-Relief requested: [credit / refund / correction / closure / certificate / revised bill / written reason]+
  
-Key facts: +===== Escalation: SCORES, then ODR =====
-1. [State the first dated fact] +
-2. [State the second dated fact] +
-3. [State the present status]+
  
-Documents attached: +  - **RTA and company:** written request with holding proof. Allow 21 days. 
-1. [Proof of entitlement] +  - **SEBI SCORES:** lodge a complaint at [[https://scores.sebi.gov.in|scores.sebi.gov.in]] against the company or RTA. Under SCORES 2.0 the entity must submit an action taken report within 21 days, and you can seek review if dissatisfied. 
-2. [Proof of payment or status] +  - **SMART ODR:** if SCORES does not resolve it, the securities market online dispute resolution portal at [[https://smartodr.in|smartodr.in]] offers conciliation and arbitration against listed companies and intermediaries. 
-3. [Previous complaint or acknowledgement]+  - **Depository grievance:** if the company says it credited the shares but your DP shows nothing, complain to your broker or DP, then to NSDL or CDSL investor grievance cells.
  
-Please resolve the matter within the applicable timeline and provide a written reply. If the request is rejected, please provide the specific reason, the rule or clause relied upon, and the name/designation of the deciding officer.+Keep the same evidence bundle throughout: record-date holding statement, transaction statement, the bonus announcement, and the RTA correspondence.
  
-===== RTI Applicability =====+===== Where RTI fits, and where it does not =====
  
-RTI is useful only when the record is held by a public authority. For bonus shares not reflected, use RTI to ask for status of file, date-wise movement, copies of deficiency memos, inspection notes, dispatch details, payment sanction, treasury advice, correspondence between offices, rule position and reasons recorded for delay or rejection. Do not ask the PIO to order payment, award compensation or punish a private party. If the dispute is with a private bank, insurer, hospital, builder, broker, employer or university not covered as a public authority, RTI may still help where a regulator or public department holds related records.+Listed companies, RTAs, brokers and the depositories are not public authorities, so RTI does not reach them. SEBI is a public authority. If your SCORES complaint stalls, you can file RTI with SEBI's CPIO for the status of action taken on your complaint number. That is the narrow, legitimate use. Drafting an RTI as a grievance against the company will be rejected. See [[file-rti-online-india|how to file RTI online]] and [[why-rti-gets-rejected|why RTI gets rejected]] before filing.
  
-===== Official Sources =====+===== Related guides =====
  
-  * [[https://scores.sebi.gov.in/|SEBI SCORES]] +  * [[practical-guides:broker-ledger-mismatch|Broker ledger does not match your contract notes]] 
-  * [[https://www.sebi.gov.in/|SEBI official website]] +  * [[practical-guides:bank-refuses-share-lien-order-cyber-complaint-details|Bank refuses details of a share lien order]] 
-  * [[https://investor.sebi.gov.in/|Investor Charter]]+  * [[practical-guides:bank-refuses-transaction-dispute-form|Bank refuses to register a dispute]]
  
-===== FAQs =====+The full list is at [[practical-guides:start|all practical guides]].
  
-==== What should I do first if bonus shares not reflected? ====+===== FAQ =====
  
-Preserve proof, write a dated complaint with reference numbers, and ask for a written decision or correction instead of relying on calls.+==== I bought the shares on the ex-date. Why did I not get the bonus? ====
  
-==== Which documents matter most? ====+Because under T+1 settlement the ex-date and record date usually coincide, your purchase settles a day after the snapshot. The seller, who held the shares on the record date, gets the bonus. The lower ex-date price already reflects this.
  
-The strongest documents are the application or account reference, proof of payment or status, previous complaints, acknowledgements and the rule or promise relied upon.+==== My holdings show the same quantity but the price has halved. Was I cheated? ====
  
-==== When should I escalate? ====+No. After a bonus, the market price adjusts to the enlarged share count. If the bonus credit itself is delayed, your portfolio value looks halved for a day or two. Check the transaction statement before assuming a loss.
  
-Escalate after the first written complaint is ignored, closed without reasons, or answered without dealing with the evidence.+==== The bonus shares show in holdings but I cannot sell them. Why? ====
  
-==== Can RTI directly force a refund or payment? ====+They may be under a temporary ISIN pending listing approval, or in lock-in for credit confirmation. Under the 2024 timeline this window is short, two working days from the record date. Ask your broker for the ISIN status if it persists.
  
-RTI can obtain public records and reasons. It does not itself order a private party to pay, but it can support a regulator, ombudsman, consumer or court complaint.+==== The RTA says my shares went to a suspense account. What now? ====
  
-==== Should I send a legal notice? ====+Ask the RTA in writing what triggered it, usually a demat mismatch or KYC gap, and complete the listed formalities. The shares remain yours and are released once the records match. Escalate on SCORES if the RTA delays after you comply.
  
-Use a legal notice when the amount is high, limitation may expire, the other side is ignoring written complaints, or a contract right is being denied.+==== My old physical shares earned a bonus. Can I get paper certificates? ====
  
-===== Related Guides =====+No. Bonus entitlements are issued in demat only. Open a demat account, complete KYC with the RTA, and have the entitlement credited there.
  
-  * [[/practical-guides/|/practical-guides/]] +==== Does the bonus change my tax position? ====
-  * [[/practical-guides/category/investments-and-securities/|/practical-guides/category/investments-and-securities/]] +
-  * [[/practical-guides/fixed-deposit-lien-not-removed-after-settlement/|/practical-guides/fixed-deposit-lien-not-removed-after-settlement/]] +
-  * [[/practical-guides/hospital-refuses-medical-records-reasonable-time/|/practical-guides/hospital-refuses-medical-records-reasonable-time/]] +
-  * [[/practical-guides/life-insurance-maturity-payment-delayed/|/practical-guides/life-insurance-maturity-payment-delayed/]] +
-  * [[/practical-guides/employer-not-giving-salary-slip/|/practical-guides/employer-not-giving-salary-slip/]]+
  
-===== Next Action Checklist =====+Bonus shares have a cost of zero for shares allotted after the grandfathering rules, and the holding period starts from allotment. Keep the allotment advice for capital gains computation when you sell. Take tax advice for large holdings.
  
-  * Save the latest status page, statement, ledger, bill or certificate extract. +Download the bonus shares credit checklist (PDF).
-  * Write a one-page chronology with dates and reference numbers. +
-  * Send one precise complaint to the record-holding office. +
-  * Ask for written reasons if the matter is rejected or closed. +
-  * Escalate with the same evidence bundle to the proper nodal or regulatory forum. +
-  * File RTI only for public records that will strengthen the main complaint. +
-  * Check limitation before waiting for repeated online replies.+