We have audited the accompanying Financial Statements of SAHARA MARITIME LIMITED (“theCompany”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement of Profit and Lossfor the year ended on March 31, 2024, the Statement Cash flow statement for the year ended & and asummary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, theaforesaid Financial Statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 in the mannerso required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Accounting Standards prescribed underSection 133 of the Act & other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairsof the Company as at March 31, 2024, its Profit/(loss) and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
BASIS FOR OPINION
We conducted our audit of the Financial Statements in accordance with the standards on Auditingspecified under section 143(10) of the Act (SAs). Our responsibilities under those standards are furtherdescribed in the Auditor’s responsibilities 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 ofChartered Accountants of India (ICAI) together with the independence requirements that are relevant toour audit of the financial statements under the provision of the Act, and the Rules made thereunder, andwe have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI’sCode of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our opinion on the financial statements.
KEY AUDIT MATTERS
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in ouraudit of the Standalone financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in thecontext of our audit of the Standalone financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinionthereon, 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 ourreport.
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Key Audit Matter
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Cash, Cash Equivalent, Bank Balance and Fixed Deposit:
Cash, cash equivalent, Bank Balance and fixed deposit consist of cash in hand, Balance with bank incurrent accounts and term deposit (current and non-current). We focused on this area as it ismaterial to the Standalone financial statements and area of significant risk for our audit as it requiresconsiderable time and resource to audit due to its magnitude, it is considered to be a key auditmatter. The Company’s disclosure about cash, cash equivalent and other financial assets areincluded in Note 2.15 of the Standalone financial statements
The company operates in India and is subject to periodic challenges by local tax authorities on arange of tax matters during the normal course of business including direct taxes, indirect taxesmatter.
These involve significant management judgement to determine the possible outcome of the taxlitigations
Auditor Response to key Audit Matter:
Principal Audit Procedures:
Balance with Bank in Current Account
We have obtained list of various bank accounts maintained by Company along with their usages,type and closing balance as appearing in the books as of the reporting date. We reconciled the Bankbalances to bank confirmations and items of reconciliation as appearing in the books of accounts.
Cash in Hand:
Cash in Hand on the reporting date is not material having regard to the size of the company, so thatwe have sought physical cash verification report conducted by management. We have alsoindependently verified on sample basis during our audit period and the reconciliation has beencarried out.
Term Deposit:
We have obtained list of Fixed deposit opened by Company and lying in the Bank as on thereporting date. We have verified Balance appearing in the Books to the Bank Balance confirmationprovided by management to us.
We have also verified interest income against these Fixed deposit booked by the Company with thestatement of fixed deposit provided to us during the audit period. We have sought from the Bank forthe Fixed deposit which are lien against Bank Overdraft.
Our audit procedures included review of the classification of the cash, cash equivalent and otherfinancial assets and any restriction on the use of the cash and cash equivalent.
Conclusion:
We found the key judgement and assumptions used by management in recognizing the cash & cashequivalents to be supportable based on the available evidence.
INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND AUDITOR’S REPORTTHEREON.
The company’s board is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The other informationcomprises the information included Management Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Report including
Annexures to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility Report but does not include the Financial Statementsand our Auditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do not express anyform of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the Financial Statements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the FinancialStatements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materiallymisstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this otherinformation, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
MANAGEMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the CompaniesAct, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these Financial Statements to give a true and fairview of the financial position, financial performance, & cash flows of the Company in accordance withaccounting standard & accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding ofthe assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection andapplication of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that wereoperating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to thepreparation and presentation of the Financial Statements that give a true and fair view and are free frommaterial misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the Financial Statements, management is responsible for assessing the company’s ability tocontinue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations,or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The board of directors are responsible for overseeing the company’s financial reporting process.
AUDITOR’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE AUDIT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are freefrom 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 inaccordance with SAs 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 could reasonably beexpected to influence the economic decision of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professionalscepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• identify and assess the risks of material misstatements of the financial statements, whether due tofraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain auditevidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detectinga material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud mayinvolve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internalcontrol.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial controls relevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are alsoresponsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financialcontrols system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accountingestimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of going concern basis of accounting and,based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events orconditions 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’sreport to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, tomodify 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 continueas a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and eventsin 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 statementsmay be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope ofour audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identifiedmisstatements in the financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope andtiming of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal controlthat we identify during our 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 thatmay 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 wereof most significance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the keyaudit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes publicdisclosure 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 expectedto 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 knowledgeand 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 asit appears from our examination of those books;
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss & Cash Flow Statement dealt with by thisReport are in agreement with the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid 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 March 31, 2024, takenon record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2024, frombeing appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act;
f) With respect to the adequacy of internal financial control over financial reporting of the company &the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in Annexure “A”. Our reportexpresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the company’sinternal financial controls over financial reporting.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with therequirements 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, theremuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisionsof section 197 of the Act.
h) With respect to other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our opinion and to the best of ourinformation and according to the explanation given to us:
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in itsfinancial statements.
(ii) The Company has made provision, as at March 31, 2024 as required under the applicable law oraccounting standards, for material foreseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts includingderivative contracts.
(iii) The Company is not liable to transfer any amounts, to the Investor Education and ProtectionFund during the year ended March 31, 2024.
(iv) a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (whichare material either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested(either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by theCompany to or in any other person or entity, including foreign entity (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether,directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever 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(which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Companyfrom any person or entity, 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 in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf ofthe Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(v) (a) The Company has not declared any dividend during the year.
(i) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has not used accountingsoftwares for maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2024, which hasa feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has not been operated throughout theyear for all relevant transactions recorded in the softwares.
(ii) As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1,2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservationof audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record retention is not applicable for the financialyear ended March 31, 2024.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (the “Order”) issued by the CentralGovernment in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in “Annexure B” a statement on thematters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
For A Y & CompanyChartered AccountantsFRN : 020829C
Arpit GuptaPartner
M.NO. : 421544
UDIN : 24421544BKFPKT6201
Place : Jaipur
Date : 30.05.2024