We have audited the financial statements of Sayaji Hotels (Indore) Limited ("theCompany"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2025, and the Statement ofProfit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), Statement of changes inequity and Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the financialstatements, including a summary of significant accounting policies and otherexplanatory information (hereinafter referred to as "the financial statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanationsgiven to us, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by theCompanies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fairview in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, asamended, ("Ind AS") and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of thestate of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, the profit and total comprehensiveincome, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specifiedunder section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under thoseStandards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of theFinancial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company inaccordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of thefinancial statements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rulesthereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance withthese requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we haveobtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on thefinancial statements.
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a. We draw attention to Note No. 42. (1) (iii) of the financial statements in respectof the leasehold land of Indore hotel, Indore Development Authority (IDA) hascancelled the lease vide order dated 20th Dec. 2017. Company had challengedthe said order before Hon'ble High Court, Indore bench. Hon'ble High CourtSingle Bench has decided the matter against Company vide their order dated16th July 2018. However, Company has filed revision Writ Appeal beforeDivision Bench of Hon'ble High Court, Indore bench. Meanwhile, the MadhyaPradesh Government has framed rules for mitigation of leaseterms/compounding and further amended the said rules on 9th April 2021 due
to which company also became eligible under the said rules to apply forcompounding/ mitigation and hence company applied to IDA forcompounding of alleged violations of the lease deed. On 8th March 2022, HighCourt, Indore bench admitted the Writ Appeal and further directed IDA todecide the compounding application of the company. Personal hearing hasbeen done on 29th March 2022 before the IDA regarding the compoundingapplication and order is awaited. IDA has also filed an application before theCompetent Authority under The Public Premises (Eviction) Act for eviction ofthe Company from said premises. High Court has granted stay on the passingof any order under the said eviction proceedings. In view of the matter beingdisputed and stay granted in eviction proceedings, the company continues toprepare the accounts on a going concern basis.
Our opinion on the financial statements is not modified in respect of abovematter.
b. We draw attention to 42. (1) (iii), the Indore hotel has been demerged fromSayaji Hotels Limited to Sayaji Hotels (Indore) Limited, but in view of theongoing litigation regarding cancellation of lease, the Company has not yetapplied for change of name in the records of IDA and mutation of the propertyin the records of Registrar of Properties. Hence, stamp duty payable has notbeen adjudicated and not provided in books of accounts & the same will beaccounted by the management in the year in which such cost is incurred.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of mostsignificance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period. Thesematters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as awhole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinionon these matters. We have determined the matters described below to be the key auditmatters to be communicated in our report.
Key Audit Matter
Auditor's Response
Disputed Statutory Liabilities andits Disclosure
Principal Audit Procedures
The Company operates in multipleStates, having multiple jurisdictionsand has material disputes withlocal authorities and taxauthorities on various matterswhich involves significant judgmentto determine the possible outcomeof these disputes.
Obtained from the management anunderstanding of various disputes includinguncertain tax positions and obtained details ofOrders, tax assessments and demands forthe year ended March 31, 2019.
Analyzed orders and correspondences fromvarious authorities and legal opinion takenby management for material disputes.
Refer Notes 42 to the StandaloneFinancial Statements
Discussed and analyzed management'sview on these disputes including estimatesmade in arriving tax positions.
We also analyzed and assessedmanagement's estimates of the possibleoutcome of the disputed matters and itsbearing on company's overall financialposition.
Capital work in Progress (CWIP)To establish proper categorizationof item to be capitalized, andappropriate recognition thereofincluding the consequentialderecognition of the carryingamount in the CWIP to theappropriated heads of accounts.
Principal Audit ProceduresOur audit approach was a combination oftest of internal control and substantiveprocedure which included the following:
Review of amounts included in the CWIPwith their work/purchase order, and thedue approval is thereof.
Applied the tests of Capital or revenuenature of the expenditure according toapplicable Standards and principle and theneed, if any, for impartment thereof.
Information Other than the Financial Statements and Auditor's Report Thereon
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the otherinformation. The other information comprises the information included in theManagement Discussion and Analysis, Board's Report including Annexures to Board'sReport, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governance and Shareholder'sInformation, but does not include the financial statements and our auditor's reportthereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and wedo not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to readthe other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information ismaterially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtainedduring 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 materialmisstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We havenothing to report in this regard.
Responsibility of Management and those Charged with governance for FinancialStatements
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the mattersstated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to thepreparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial
position, financial performance, and cash flows of the Company in accordance withthe Ind AS and other accounting principles generally accepted in India.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records inaccordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of theCompany and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selectionand application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementationand maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operatingeffectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records,relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a trueand fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, mattersrelated to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unlessmanagement either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has norealistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the company's financialreporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financialstatements 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 assuranceis a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted inaccordance 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 theeconomic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment andmaintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financialstatements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform auditprocedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of notdetecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for oneresulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentionalomissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order todesign audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Undersection 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible forexpressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internalfinancial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of suchcontrols.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the
reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made bymanagement.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern
basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether amaterial uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Ifwe conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to drawattention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the financialstatements 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 goingconcern.
• 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.
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.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we havecomplied all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear onour independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determinethose matters that were of most significance in the audit of the financial statements ofthe current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these mattersin our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about thematter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter shouldnot be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing sowould reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of suchcommunication.
As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order"), issued bythe Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of theCompanies Act, 2013, we give in the "Annexure-A" a statement on the mattersspecified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
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 thebest 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 bythe Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash FlowStatement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of theCompanies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on31stMarch, 2025 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is
disqualified as on 31 March, 2025 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 financialreporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, referto our separate Report in "Annexure B".
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report inaccordance 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 theexplanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directorsduring the year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.
(h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report inaccordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, inour opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanationsgiven to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financialposition in its financial statements - Refer Note No.42 to the financialstatements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativecontracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, tothe Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate)have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds orshare premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or inany other person or entity, including foreign entity ("Intermediaries"), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediaryshall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entitiesidentified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(b) The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate)have been received by the Company from any person or entity, includingforeign entity ("Funding Parties"), with the understanding, whether recordedin writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, 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 anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been 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 (a) and (b) above, contain any materialmisstatement.
v. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company, has usedaccounting software systems for maintaining its books of account for thefinancial year ended March 31, 2025 which have a feature of recording audittrail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for allrelevant transactions recorded in the software systems, except in respect ofmaintenance of accounting records of capital work in progress of AmberProject, which was maintained in an accounting software system in which theaudit trail feature did not operate throughout the year.
Further, during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance ofaudit trail feature being tampered with, in respect of accounting software's forthe period for which the audit trail feature was operating.
Chartered Accountants,
FRN: 003289C
Place of Signature: IndoreDate :23rd May, 2025
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