New Delhi, May 10 -- A number of clients have not received their payouts for trades executed last Tuesday , at the expiry of the Nifty weekly options .

The payouts were stopped on a police complaint filed by a client based in Jodhpur against a broking firm's franchisee that the latter was running fraudulent and unauthorised transactions in his account , according to a market source whose payout has been held back.

An exchange official was not immediately available to confirm this .

Payout refers to the transfer of funds from one broker's account to another whose clients were part of a transaction .

The payout was halted by the NSE following instructions from its enforcement authority (EA).

The NSE said in a circular on 6 May that it ...