1. We have audited the accompanying financial statements of PAJSON AGRO INDIA LIMITED (formerlyknown as Pajson Agro India Private Limited) ('the Company'), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31March 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended, andnotes to the financial statements, including a summary of the significant accounting policies and otherexplanatory information.
2. In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidfinancial statements give the information required by the Companies Act. 2013 ('the Act ) in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view, in conformity with the Accounting Standards specified under section133 of the Act, read with the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2021 and other accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31 March 2025, and its profit and itscash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
3. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under section 143(10) ofthe Act. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities forthe Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company inaccordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ('ICAI') togetherwith the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisionsof the Act and the rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordancewith these requirements and the Code of Ethics We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Information other than the Financial Statements and Auditor's Report thereon
4. The Company's Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprisesthe information included in the Director Report, but does not include the financial statements and our auditor'sreport thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form ofassurance conclusion thereon
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and,in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements, orour knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If, based on the work wehave performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this omer information, we are required toreport that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
Responsibilities of Management for the Financial Statements
5. The accompanying financial statements have been approved by the Company's Board of Directors. TheCompany's Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect tothe preparation and presentation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financialposition, financial performance and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the Accounting Standardsspecified under section 133 of the Act, read with the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2021 and otheraccounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequateaccounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Companyand for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriateaccounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design,implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively forensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentationof the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether dueto fraud or error.
6. In preparing the financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the Company's ability tocontinue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concernbasis of accounting unless the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations,or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements
7. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are freefrom material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes ouropinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted inaccordance with Standards on Auditing will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatementscan arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonablybe expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
8. As part of an audit in accordance with Standards on Auditing, specified under section 143(10) of the Act weexercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error,design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting fromfraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions,misrepresentations, or the override of internal control;
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures thatare appropriate in the circumstances, under section 143(3)(i) of the Act we are also responsible forexpressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls with reference tofinancial statements in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls;
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimatesand related disclosures made by management;
• Conclude on the appropriateness of Board of Directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting and,based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditionsthat may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude thata material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the relateddisclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Ourconclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor's report. However, futureevents or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern; and
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in amanner that achieves fair presentation
9. We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scopeand timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal controlthat we identify during our audit.
Other Matter
10. The Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31st March, 2024, prepared in accordance withAccounting Standards have been audited by the predecessor auditors. The report of the predecessor auditors dated30th August, 2024, expressed an unmodified opinion.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
11. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirements ofsection 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to theexplanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordancewith the provisions of section 197 read with Schedule V of the Act.
12. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ('the Order') issued by the Central Governmentof India in terms of section 143(11) of the Act we give in the Annexure-1 a statement on the matters specifiedin paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
13. Further to our comments in Annexure I, as required by section 143(3) of the Act based on our audit, wereport, to the extent applicable, that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge andbelief were necessary for the purpose of our audit of the accompanying financial statements;
b) in our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears fromour examination of those books;
c) The financial statements dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified undersection 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2021;
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors and taken on record by the Board ofDirectors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 March 2025 from being appointed as a director interms of section 164(2) of the Act;
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financial statements of theCompany as on 31 March 2025 and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report inAnnexure II wherein we have expressed an unmodified opinion; and
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with rule 11 of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 (as amended), in our opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to us;
i. The company does not have any pending litigation which would impact its financial position as at 31 March2025;
ii. the Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were anymaterial foreseeable losses as at 31 March 2025;
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fundby the Company during the year ended 31 March 2025;
iv.
a. The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in note 41{vi) tothe financial statements, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed fundsor securities premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any persons or entitiesincluding foreign entities ('the intermediaries'), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, thatthe intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entitiesidentified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company ('the Ultimate Beneficiaries') or provideany guarantee, security or the like on behalf the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
b. The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in note 41(vii)to the financial statements, no funds have been received by the Company from any persons or entities,including foreign entities ('the Funding Parties'), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Company shall, whether directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entitiesidentified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party ('Ultimate Beneficiaries') or provideany guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries , and
c. Based on such audit procedures performed as considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances,nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the management representations undersub-clauses (a) and (b) above contain any material misstatement.
v. The company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year ended 31 March 2025
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company, in respect of financial year commencingon 1 April 2024, has used an accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature ofrecording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has been operated throughout the year for all relevanttransactions recorded in the software except that. The accounting software used for maintenance of accountingrecords of the Company is operated by a third-party software service provider. In the absence of anyinformation on existence of audit trail (edit log) for any direct changes made at database level, we are unableto comment on whether the audit trail feature with respect to the database of the said software was enabledand operated throughout the year as described in note 47 to the financial statements. Further, during the courseof our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with where such featureis enabled
For P. K. Maheshwari & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Firm's Registration No.: 000977N
Gunjan Audichya
Partner
Membership No.: 555184
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Place: New Delhi
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