We have audited the accompanying financial statements
of Ather Energy Limited (Formerly known as Ather Energy
Private Limited) (“the Company”), which comprise the
Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, and the Statement
of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive
Income), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the
Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended on that
date, and notes to the financial statements, including
a summary of material accounting policies and other
explanatory information.

In our opinion and to the best of our information and
according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid
financial statements give the information required by
the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) in the manner so
required and give a true and fair view in conformity with
the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under
section 133 of the Act, (“Ind AS”) and other accounting
principles generally accepted in India, of the state of
affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, and its
loss, total comprehensive loss, its cash flows and the
changes in equity for the year ended on that date.

Basis for Opinion

We conducted our audit of the financial statements
in accordance with the Standards on Auditing
(“SAs”) specified under section 143(10) of the Act.
Our responsibilities under those Standards are further
described in the Auditor’s Responsibility for the Audit of
the Financial Statements section of our report. We are
independent of the Company in accordance with the
Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India (“ICAI”) together with the ethical
requirements that are relevant to our audit of the
financial statements under the provisions of the Act and
the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our
other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these
requirements and the ICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe
that the audit evidence obtained by us is sufficient and
appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on
the financial statements.

Key Audit Matters

Key audit matters are those matters that, in our
professional judgment, were of most significance in our
audit of the financial statements of the current period.
These matters were addressed in the context of our
audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in
forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a
separate opinion on these matters. We have determined
the matters described below to be the key audit matters
to be communicated in our report.

Information Other than the Financial Statements and
Auditor's Report Thereon

• The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible
for the other information. The other information
comprises the information included in the director
report including the Annexures to the director
report and Management Discussion and Analysis
but does not include the financial statements and
our auditor’s report thereon.

• Our opinion on the financial statements does not
cover the other information and we do not express
any form of assurance 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 or our knowledge obtained
during the course of our 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.

Responsibilities of Management and Board of
Directors for the Financial Statements

The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for
the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with
respect to the preparation of these financial statements
that give a true and fair view of the financial position,
financial performance including other comprehensive
loss, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company
in accordance with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India, including Ind AS specified
under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also
includes maintenance of adequate accounting
records in accordance with the provisions of the Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for
preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;
selection and application of appropriate accounting
policies; making judgments 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 accounting
records, relevant to the preparation and presentation
of the financial statements that give a true and fair view
and are free from material misstatement, whether due
to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, management
and Board of Directors is responsible for assessing
the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern,
disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going
concern and using the going concern basis of
accounting unless the Board of Directors either intend
to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has
no realistic alternative but to do so.

The Company’s Board of Directors are also
responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial
reporting process.

Auditor's Responsibility for the Audit of the
Financial Statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance
about whether the financial statements as a whole
are free from material misstatement, whether due to
fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that
includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high
level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit
conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a
material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can
arise from fraud or error and are considered material if,
individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably
be expected to influence the economic decisions of
users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise
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 and appropriate
to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not
detecting a material misstatement resulting from
fraud 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 financial
controls relevant to the audit in order to design
audit procedures that are appropriate in the
circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the
Act, we are also responsible for expressing our
opinion on whether the Company has adequate
internal financial controls with reference to
financial statements in place and the operating
effectiveness of such controls.

• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting
policies used and the reasonableness of
accounting estimates and related disclosures
made by the management.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of
management’s use of the going concern basis
of accounting and, based on the audit evidence
obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists
related to events or conditions that may cast
significant doubt on the Company’s ability to
continue as a going concern. If we conclude that
a material uncertainty exists, we are required
to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the
related disclosures in the financial statements or,

if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our
opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit
evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’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 financial statements, including the
disclosures, and whether the financial statements
represent the underlying transactions and events
in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the
financial statements that, individually or in aggregate,
makes it probable that the economic decisions of
a reasonably knowledgeable user of the financial
statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative
materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the
scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of
our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified
misstatements in the financial statements.

We communicate with those charged with governance
regarding, among other matters, the planned scope
and timing of the audit and significant audit findings,
including any significant deficiencies in internal financial
controls that we identify during our audit.

We also provide those charged with governance
with a statement that we have complied with relevant
ethical requirements regarding independence, and
to communicate with them all relationships and
other matters that may reasonably be thought to
bear on our independence, and where applicable,
related safeguards.

From the matters communicated with those charged
with governance, we determine those matters that
were of most significance in the audit of the financial
statements of the current period and are therefore
the key audit matters. We describe these matters in
our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes
public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely
rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should
not be communicated in our report because the
adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably
be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of
such communication.

Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements

1. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on
our audit we report that:

a) We have sought and obtained all the
information and explanations which to the
best of our knowledge and belief were
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 appears from our
examination of those books, except for not

complying with the requirement of audit trail
as stated in (i)(vi) below.

c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit
and Loss including Other Comprehensive
loss, the Statement of Cash Flows and
Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with
by this Report are in agreement with the
relevant books of account.

d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial
statements comply with the Ind AS specified
under Section 133 of the Act.

e) On the basis of the written representations
received from the directors as on
March 31, 2025 taken on record by the
Board of Directors, none of the directors is
disqualified as on March 31, 2025 from being
appointed as a director in terms of Section
164(2) of the Act.

f) The modification relating to the maintenance
of accounts and other matters connected
therewith, is as stated in paragraph (b) above.

g) With respect to the adequacy of the

internal financial controls with reference
to financial statements of the Company
and the operating effectiveness of such
controls, refer to our separate Report in
“Annexure A”. Our report expresses an

unmodified opinion on the adequacy and
operating effectiveness of the Company’s
internal financial controls with reference to
financial statements.

h) With respect to the other matters to

be included in the Auditor’s Report in
accordance with the requirements of

section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our
opinion and to the best of our information
and according to the explanations given to
us, the remuneration paid by the Company to
its directors during the year is in accordance
with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.

i) With respect to the other matters to

be included in the Auditor’s Report in
accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies
(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as
amended in our opinion and to the best
of our information and according to the
explanations given to us:

i. The Company has disclosed the
impact of pending litigations on
its financial position in its financial
statements - Refer Note 35 to the
financial statements;

ii. The Company did not have any
long-term contracts including
derivative contracts for which there
were any material foreseeable losses.

iii. There were no amounts which were required

to be transferred to the Investor Education

and Protection Fund by the Company.

iv. (a) The Management has represented

that, to the best of its knowledge and
belief, as disclosed in the note 46 to
the financial statements no funds have
been advanced or loaned or invested
(either from borrowed funds or share
premium or any other sources or kind
of funds) by the Company to or in any
other person(s) or entity(ies), including
foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with
the understanding, whether recorded
in writing or otherwise, that the
Intermediary shall, directly or indirectly
lend or invest in otherpersons 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, as disclosed in the note 46 to
the financial statements, no funds have
been received by the Company from
any person(s) or entity(ies), including
foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with
theunderstanding,whether recorded in
writing or otherwise, that the Company
shall, directly or indirectly, lend or
invest in other persons or entities
identified in any manner whatsoever
by or on behalf of the Funding Party
(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide
any guarantee, security or the like on
behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.

(c) Based on the audit procedures
performed that have been considered
reasonable and appropriate in the
circumstances, nothing has come
to our notice that has caused us to
believe that the representations under

sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as
provided under (a) and (b) above,
contain any material misstatement.

v. The Company has not declared or paid
any dividend during the year and has not
proposed final dividend for the year.

vi. Based on our examination, which included
test checks, the Company has used an
accounting software for maintaining its
books of account for the financial year
ended March 31, 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 except that audit trail feature
was not enabled for direct changes at the
database level for the period from April 1,
2024 to July 05, 2024. Consequent to this, we
are unable to comment whether there were
any instances of the audit trail feature being
tampered with during this period.

Further, the audit trail that was enabled and
operated for the year ended March 31, 2024
has been preserved by the Company as
per the statutory requirements for record
retention.

2. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report)
Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued by the Central
Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act,
we give in “Annexure B” a statement on the matters
specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.

For Deloitte Haskins & Sells

Chartered Accountants

(Firm’s Registration No. 008072S)

Gurvinder Singh

Partner

Place: Bengaluru (Membership No. 110128)

Date: May 12, 2025 UDIN: 25110128BMHZTZ8617