1 Sr. No. Key Audit Matter
How our audit addressed the key audit matter
1.
Contingent Liability
•
Obtained an understanding from the management with respect to process
The Company is involved in various litigations including direct
and controls followed by the Company for identification and monitoring of
and indirect tax litigations that are pending with various tax
significant developments in relation to the litigations, including completeness
authorities as mentioned in Note No. 50 of the Standalone
thereof.
Financial Statements. Whether a liability is recognized or
Obtained the list of litigations from the management and reviewed their
disclosed as a contingent liability in the standalone financialstatements is inherently judgmental and dependent onassumptions and assessments. We placed specific focuson the judgements in respect to these demands against theCompany. Determining the amount, if any, to be recognized or
assessment of the likelihood of outflow of economic resources being probable,possible or remote in respect of the litigations.
Assessed management’s discussions held with their legal consultants andunderstanding precedents in similar cases;
disclosed in the standalone financial statements, is inherentlysubjective. Therefore, these litigations amount is consideredto be a key audit matter.
Obtained and evaluated the confirmations from the consultants representingthe Company before the various authorities and our own dedicated teams ofdirect tax and indirect tax.
Assessed and validated the adequacy and appropriateness of the disclosuresmade by the management in the standalone financial statements.
2.
Capital Expenditure in respect of Property, Plant and
We obtained an understanding of the Company’s capitalisation policy and
Equipment (PPE)
assessed for compliance with the relevant accounting standards.
The Company has incurred significant expenditure on
We obtained understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating
capital projects, as reflected by additions in property plant
effectiveness of internal controls related to capital expenditure and
and equipment including capital work in progress in note no.
capitalisation of assets.
5 of the standalone financial statements.
Reviewed management’s evaluation of project in progress and their intent to
We considered Capital expenditure to PPE as a Key audit
bring assets to its intended use.
matter due to:
We performed substantive testing on a sample basis for various elements
• Significance of amount incurred on such items during the
of capitalised costs and directly attributable cost, including verification
year ended March 31, 2026.
of underlying supporting evidence and understanding nature of the costs
• Judgement and estimate required by management in
capitalised.
assessing assets meeting the capitalisation criteria set
We have tested on sample basis the appropriate classification of asset category
out in Ind AS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment.
and its useful life in accordance with the Schedule II of the Companies Act
• Judgement involved in determining the eligibility of costs
2013.
including borrowing cost and other directly attributable
We have obtained componentisation and Completion reports for capitalisation
costs for capitalisation as per the criteria set out in Ind AS
carried out during the year, wherever applicable and have assessed
16 Property, Plant and Equipment.
appropriateness of basis of componentisation and stages of completion.
In relation to borrowing costs we obtained the supporting calculations, testedthe inputs to the calculation and tested the arithmetical accuracy of the model.
We have audited the Standalone Financial Statements of KirloskarFerrous Industries Limited (“the Company”), which comprise theBalance Sheet as at March 31, 2026, and the Statement of Profitand Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), Statement ofChanges in Equity and Statement of Cash Flows for the year thenended, and notes to the Financial Statements, including a summaryof Material Accounting Policies and other explanatory information(hereinafter referred to as “the Standalone Financial Statements”).
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us, the aforesaid Standalone FinancialStatements give the information required by the Companies Act,2013 (‘the Act’) in the manner so required and give a true and fair viewin conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted inIndia, of the standalone state of affairs of the Company as at March31, 2026, and its standalone profit (including Other ComprehensiveIncome), standalone changes in equity and its standalone cash flowsfor the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards onAuditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Ourresponsibilities under those Standards are further describedin the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the standaloneFinancial Statements section of our report. We are independentof the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued bythe Institute of Chartered Accountants of India together with theethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the standaloneFinancial Statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rulesthereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities inaccordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficientand appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion
We draw attention to Note 52 of the Standalone FinancialStatements which fully explains that by virtue of approval ofScheme of arrangement and merger by absorption of OliverEngineering Private Limited (‘Transferor Company 1’) and AdiccaEnergy Solutions Private Limited (‘Transferor Company 2’)(together the ‘Transferor Companies’) with the Company, theirrespective shareholders and creditors (‘the Scheme’) by Hon’bleNational Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai Bench vide orderdated June 02, 2026 with effect from April 01, 2025 (‘AppointedDate’), the Standalone Financial Statements approved by Boardon May 07, 2026 have been updated to give the effect of mergerin accordance with Appendix C to Ind AS 103 read with relatedaccounting pronouncements, as set out in the aforesaid note.
Further, explanation with respect to the evaluation performed bymanagement in respect of the unabsorbed depreciation and carriedforward business losses of the transferor companies that weretransferred and vested in the Company pursuant to the sanctionedscheme of merger and consequential effect on Current Tax andDeferred Tax is also provided in the said note.
Consequently, our report on the Standalone Financial Statementsdated May 07, 2026 having UDIN 26117309CSXTNY6855 and26117695JWEMXO7558 stands cancelled.
Our opinion on Standalone Financial Statements is not modified inrespect of the above matter.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgement, were of most significance in our audit of the standalonefinancial statements for financial year ended March 31, 2026. Thesematters were addressed in the context of our audit of the standalonefinancial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon,and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. For eachmatter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matterprovided in that context.
We have determined the matters described below to be the keyaudit matters to be communicated in our report.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the otherinformation. The other information comprises the informationincluded in the Management Discussion and Analysis, CorporateGovernance and Board of Director’s report, but does not include thestandalone Financial Statements and our auditor’s report thereon.This information is expected to be made available to us after the dateof this auditor’s report.
Our opinion on the standalone Financial Statements does not coverthe other information and we do not express any form of assuranceconclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone Financial Statements,our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so,consider whether the other information is materially inconsistentwith the standalone Financial Statements or our knowledge obtainedin the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
When we read the information as mentioned above, if we concludethat there is a material misstatement therein, we will communicatethe matter to those charged with governance.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the mattersstated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparationof these standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fairview of the standalone financial position, standalone financialperformance including other comprehensive income, standalonechanges in equity and standalone cash flows of the Company inaccordance with the accounting principles generally accepted inIndia, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specifiedunder section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended. This responsibilityalso includes maintenance of adequate accounting records inaccordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of theassets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraudsand other irregularities; selection and application of appropriateaccounting policies; making judgments and estimates thatare reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation andmaintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that wereoperating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of
the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentationof the standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair viewand are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraudor error.
In preparing the standalone Financial Statements, the managementis responsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continue as agoing concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to goingconcern and using the going concern basis of accounting unlessmanagement either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing theCompany’s financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether thestandalone Financial Statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’sreport that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a highlevel of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conductedin accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatementwhen it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and areconsidered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they couldreasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions ofusers taken on the basis of these standalone Financial Statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professionaljudgment and maintain professional skepticism throughoutthe audit.
We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement ofthe standalone Financial Statements, whether due to fraudor error, design and perform audit procedures responsive tothose risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of notdetecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud ishigher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involvecollusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations,or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to theaudit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriatein the circumstances. Under section 143(3)0) of the Act weare also responsible for expressing our opinion on whetherthe Company has adequate internal financial controls withreference to standalone financial statements in place and theoperating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies usedand the reasonableness of accounting estimates and relateddisclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of thegoing concern basis of accounting and, based on the auditevidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significant doubton the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If weconclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required todraw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosuresin the standalone Financial Statements or, if such disclosuresare inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions arebased on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of ourauditor’s report. However, future events or conditions maycause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of thestandalone Financial Statements, including the disclosures,and whether the standalone Financial Statements representthe underlying transactions and events in a manner thatachieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding,among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit andsignificant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies ininternal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statementthat we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regardingindependence, and to communicate with them all relationshipsand other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the standalone Financial Statementsof the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. Wedescribe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulationprecludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremelyrare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not becommunicated in our report because the adverse consequencesof doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the publicinterest benefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020(“the Order”), issued by the Central Government of India interms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we givein the Annexure A; a statement on the matters specified inparagraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information andexplanations which to the best of our knowledge andbelief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by lawhave been kept by the Company so far as it appears fromour examination of those books.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Lossincluding other comprehensive income, the Statementof Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flowdealt with by this Report are in agreement with the booksof account.
d) I n our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone FinancialStatements comply with the Indian AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act, readwith the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules,2015, as amended.
e) On the basis of the written representations receivedfrom the directors as on March 31, 2026 taken onrecord by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on March 31, 2026 from being appointedas a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financialcontrols with reference to financial reporting of thecompany and the operating effectiveness of suchcontrols, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure B”.
g) As required by section 197 (16) of the Act; in our opinionand according to information and explanation provided tous, the remuneration paid by the company to its directorsis in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of theAct and remuneration paid to directors is not in excess ofthe limit laid down under this section.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included inthe Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in ouropinion and to the best of our information and accordingto the explanations given to us:
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pendinglitigations on its financial position in its StandaloneFinancial Statements - Refer Note No. 50 to theStandalone Financial Statements.
(ii) The Company did not have any materialforeseeable losses on long-term contractsincluding derivative contracts.
(iii) There is no delay in transferring amounts, requiredto be transferred, to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the Company.
(iv) (a) The management has represented to us
that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,no funds have been advanced or loanedor invested (either from borrowed fundsor share premium or any other sources orkind of funds) by the Company to or in anyother person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writingor otherwise, that the Intermediary shall,whether, directly or indirectly lend or investin other persons or entities identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of thecompany (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provideany guarantee, security or the like on behalf ofthe Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(b) The management has represented to us,that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,no funds have been received by the Companyfrom any person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities (“Funding Parties”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Company shall, whether,directly or indirectly, lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the FundingParty (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on the information and explanationgiven to us and audit procedures performedas considered reasonable and appropriate inthe circumstances, nothing has come to ournotice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations made by the management andas mentioned under sub-clause (iv)(a) and (iv)(b) above contain any material misstatement.
(v) The dividend declared and paid during the year bythe Company is in compliance with Section 123 ofthe Act.
(vi) Based on our examination which included testchecks, the company has used an accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of account whichhas a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facilityand the same has operated throughout the year forall relevant transactions recorded in the software.
Further, during the course of our audit we did notcome across any instance of audit trail feature beingtampered with and the audit trail has been preservedby the Company as per the statutory requirements forrecord retention.
a. The accompanying Standalone Financial Statementsincludes the audited financial statements and other financialinformation, in respect of Transferor Company 1, whosefinancial statements include total assets of Rs. 261.61 Croresas at March 31, 2026, total income of Rs. 118.36 Crores, totalnet (loss) after tax of Rs. (17.78) Crores, total comprehensiveincome of Rs. (17.75) Crore and net cash inflow of Rs. 4.74 Crorefor the year ended March 31, 2026. All the above figures arebefore effect of merger. These Audited financial Statementshave been audited by one of the Joint Statutory Auditors.The opinion of the other Joint Statutory Auditors, in so far asit relates to the affairs of the transferor Company 1, is basedsolely on such Audited financial Statements.
b. The accompanying Standalone Financial Statementsincludes the audited financial statements and other financialinformation, in respect of Transferor Company 2, whosefinancial statements include total assets of Rs. 2.80 Crores asat March 31, 2026, Nil total income, total net (loss) after tax of Rs.(0.30) Crores, total comprehensive income of Rs. (0.30) Croreand net cash outflow of Rs. 0.04 Crore for the year ended March31, 2026. All the above figures are before effect of merger.These Audited Financial Statements have been audited byother Auditor. The opinion of the Joint Statutory Auditors, inso far as it relates to the affairs of the transferor Company 2, isbased solely on such Audited financial Statements.
Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statement is not modifiedin respect of the above matters with respect to our reliance on thework done and the reports of the other auditors.
For KIRTANE & PANDIT LLP For P G BHAGWAT LLP
Chartered Accountants Chartered Accountants
Firm Registration No.105215W/W100057 Firm Registration No. 101118W/W100682
Parag Pansare Nachiket Deo
Partner Partner
Membership No: 117309 Membership No: 117695
Date: June 12, 2026 Date: June 12, 2026
UDIN: 26117309JREOYM5221 UDIN: 26117695OQGNTT3551
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