1. We have audited the standalone financial statements of Petro Carbon and Chemicals Limited (formerly known as“Petro Carbon and Chemicals Private Limited”), (“the Company”), which comprise the standalone balance sheet as at31st March 2025, the standalone statement of Profit and Loss and standalone statement of the cash flow statement forthe year then ended, notes to the standalone financial statements, including a summary of significant accountingpolicies and other explanatory information herein after referred to as “Standalone Financial Statements”.
2. In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalonefinancial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the “Act”) in the manner so required andgive a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs ofthe company as at 31st March 2025, and its profit and loss and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
3. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of theCompanies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilitiesfor the Audit of the standalone 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 together with the ethicalrequirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalone financial statements under the provisions of the CompaniesAct, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with theserequirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriateto provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
4. The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the informationincluded in the Annual Report, but does not include the standalone financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.The annual report is expected to be made available to us after the date of this auditors' report.
5. 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 standalone financial statements, our responsibility isto read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with thestandalone financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information;we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
6. The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013(“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of thefinancial position, financial performance and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, including the accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act, read with Rule7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventingand detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate
internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a true and fairview and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
7. In preparing the standalone financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the company'sability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis 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.
8. Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the company's financial reporting process.
9. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as a whole arefree from 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 in accordancewith Standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or errorand are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence theeconomic decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone financial statements.
10. As part of an audit in accordance with Standards, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements, whether due to fraudor error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficientand appropriate 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 that are appropriatein the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressingour opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the auditevidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt onthe Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required todraw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the standalone financial statements or, if such disclosuresare inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of ourauditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in amanner that achieves fair presentation.
11. We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timingof the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify duringour audit. We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that mayreasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
12. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the order”), issued by the Central Government of Indiain terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, we give in the “Annexure - A”, a statement onthe matter specified in paragraphs 3 & 4 of the said Order.
13. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and beliefwere necessary for the purposes of our audit;
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appearsfrom our examination of those books;
(c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss and the Standalone Cash FlowStatement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specifiedunder Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2025 taken on record bythe Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2025 from being appointed as adirector in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and theoperating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure - B”.
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Auditand Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i) The company does not have any pending litigation which would impact its financial position.
ii) The company has made provision, as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, for materialforeseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts including derivative contracts.
iii) There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fundby the Company.
iv) a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been advanced
or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) bythe Company to or in any other persons or entities, including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”) with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall directly or indirectly lendor invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
b) The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been received bythe Company from any person(s) or entities, including foreign entity (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding,whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest inother persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Parties (“UltimateBeneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in thecircumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the above managementrepresentations under subclause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as provided under (A) and (B) above, containany material misstatement.
v) The company has not paid or declared any dividend during the year and hence provision for section 123 not applicable.
(h) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the company has used accounting software for maintainingits books of account for the financial year ended 31st March 2025 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log)facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further,during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
(i) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the company to itsdirectors during the current year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act. The Ministry of CorporateAffairs has not prescribed other details under Section 197(16) of the Act which are required to be commented by us.
Chartered Accountants
Firm Regn. No. : 304138E
Sd/-
CA Aditya Madhogarhia
Partner
Membership No.: 304771
UDIN : 25304771BMLWBT1541
Place : Kolkata
Date : 2nd May 2025