We have audited the accompanying standalone Ind AS financial statements of SBL InfratechLimited ('the Company'), which comprise the balance sheet as at March 31st, 2024, thestatement of profit and loss, statement of changes in equity, and the statement of cash flowsfor the year then ended and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of thesignificant accounting policies and other explanatory information (herein after referred to as"standalone Ind AS financial statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by the Act in the mannerso required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31st, 2024and profit/loss, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with Standards on Auditing (SAs) prescribed undersection 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those standards arefurther described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the audit of the standalone financialstatements section of our report. We are independent of the Group and its associates andjoint ventures in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of theconsolidated financial statements in India in terms of the Code of Ethics issued by theInstitute of Chartered Accountants of India and the relevant provisions of the Companies Act,2013, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with theserequirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for theStandalone Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) ofthe Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these standalone IndAS financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financialperformance including other comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity of theCompany in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, includingthe Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read withrelevant rules issued thereunder.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordancewith the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and forpreventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application ofappropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent;
and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, thatwere operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone Ind AS financialstatements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whetherdue to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters relatedto going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Board ofDirectors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realisticalternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financialreporting process.
Auditor's Responsibility for the audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone Ind ASfinancial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud orerror, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is ahigh level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance withSAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise fromfraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they couldreasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis ofthese standalone Ind AS financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintainprofessional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
i. Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements,whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive tothose risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to providea basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resultingfrom fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involvecollusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override ofinternal control.
ii. Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to designaudit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing ouropinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls systemin place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
iii. Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and thereasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made bymanagement.
iv. Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concernbasis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether amaterial uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significantdoubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we concludethat a material uncertainty exists,
we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosuresin the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify ouropinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the dateof our auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause theCompany to cease to continue as a going concern.
v. Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financialstatements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statementsrepresent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fairpresentation.
vi. We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among othermatters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings,including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during ouraudit.
vii. We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we havecomplied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and tocommunicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonablybe thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, relatedsafeguards.
viii. From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, wedetermine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the financialstatements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. Wedescribe these matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludespublic disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, wedetermine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because theadverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweighthe public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2016 ("the Order") issued by the
Central Government of India in terms of section 143(11) of the Act, we give in the Annexure
A, a statement on the matters specified in the paragraph 3 and 4 of the order.
2. 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 bestof 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 theCompany so far as it appears from our examination of those books;
(c) the balance sheet, the statement of profit and loss, the statement of cash flows andthe statement of changes in equity dealt with by this report are in agreement with thebooks of account;
(d) in our opinion, the aforesaid standalone Ind AS financial statements comply with theAccounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act read with relevant ruleissued thereunder;
(e) on the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March31st, 2024, taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on March 31st, 2023, from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164 (2) of the Act;
(f) with respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reportingof the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate report in "Annexure B"; and
(g) with respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordancewith Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion andto the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. the Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact itsfinancial position;
ii. the Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativecontracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses;
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by theCompany;
iv. (a) The management has represented to us that, to the best of its knowledgeand belief, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either fromborrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) bythe company to or in any other person(s) or entities, including foreign entities(“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend orinvest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by oron 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 to us that, to the best of its knowledgeand belief, no funds have been received by the company from any person(s)or entities, including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the companyshall, 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 provide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
(c) Based on our audit procedures that are considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that hascaused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) ofRule 11(e) as provided under paragraph 2(h) (iv)(a) &(b) above, contain anymaterial mis-statement.
v. The company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year incontravention of the provisions of section 123 of the Companies Act, 2013.
(h) With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditors’ Report under Section197(16) of the Act, in our opinion and according to the information and explanationsgiven to us, no managerial remuneration has been paid / provided for the year endedMarch 31, 2024.
For HCO & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Firm’s registration number: 001087C
CA NEERAJ BANSAL
Partner
Membership number: 400248.
Place:DELHI
Date:30/05/2024
UDIN:24400248BKDNSC4367