We have audited the accompanying Revised Standalone Financial Statements of JK Lakshmi Cement Limited (the "Company"), which comprise the revised standalone balance sheet as at March 31,2025, the revised standalone statement of profit and loss (including other comprehensive loss), the revised standalone statement of changes in equity and the revised standalone statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and notes to the Revised Standalone Financial Statements including a summary of the material accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as the "Revised Standalone Financial Statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, and based on the consideration of auditors reports of other amalgamating companies as were audited by us and other auditor, the aforesaid Revised Standalone 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 ('Ind AS') prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, its revised profit including other comprehensive (loss), its revised cash flows and revised changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit of the Revised Standalone 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 Responsibilities for the Audit of the Revised Standalone 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 Revised Standalone 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 we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Revised Standalone Financial Statements.
Emphasis of matter
We draw attention to note 73 to the Revised Standalone Financial Statements which describes that the Original
Standalone Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended March 31,2025 were earlier approved by the Board of Directors at their meeting held on May 27, 2025 and on which we expressed an unmodified opinion vide our audit report dated May 27, 2025.
Pursuant to the implementation of Composite scheme of Amalgamation and Arrangement (Scheme) between the Company and its three subsidiaries namely Udaipur Cement Works Limited (UCWL), Hansdeep Industries & Trading Company Limited (HITCL) and Hidrive Developers and Industries Limited (HDIL) (all three subsidiaries collectively "the Amalgamating Companies" or "the Transferor Companies" ) approved by the Hon'ble National Company Law Tribunal , Jaipur vide its order dated June 12, 2025, all the assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus of the Transferor Companies have been transferred to and vested in the Company. Consequently, the aforesaid Original Standalone Financial Statements have been revised by the Company to give accounting effect to the said Scheme prior to placing of these Original Standalone Financial Statements in the Annual General Meeting for adoption by the shareholders of the Company. Further, the aforesaid merger has been given accounting effect from the beginning of the preceding period in accordance with the requirements of Appendix C of Ind AS 103 "Business combination". The financial impact of the aforesaid treatment has been disclosed in the aforsaid note.
Our procedures on subsequent events for the period from May 28, 2025 to August 01, 2025 are restricted solely to audit the adjustments made by the management to give accounting effect to the said Scheme in the Revised Standalone Financial Statements as described above. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements for the financial year ended March 31,2025. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the Revised Standalone 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. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying Revised Standalone Financial Statements. The amalgamating company as reffered in other matter was audited by other auditor, have not specified any key audit matters.
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Key Audit Matters
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Revenue recognition - Discounts, incentives,
rebates etc.
• Recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure as per Ind AS-11 5 "Revenue from Contracts with Customers".
(Refer Sub-note No III. (13) of note 1 of Accounting Policy).
• Revenue is measured net of discounts, incentives, rebates etc. given to the customers on the Company's sales.
• Due to the Company's presence in different marketing regions within the country and the competitive business environment, the assessment of the various types of discounts, incentives and rebate schemes, is material and considered to be complex and judgmental.
• Therefore, there is a risk of revenue being misstated as a result of faulty estimations over discounts, incentives and rebates.
• Given the judgement required to estimate the amount of provisions, this is a key audit matter.
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Our procedures included:
For recognition of revenue:
• We performed walkthroughs to understand the key processes and identify key controls related Ind AS 115 "Revenue from Contracts with Customers".
• We performed revenue cut-off testing, by reference to bill dates of sales recorded either side of the financial year end had legally completed; and
• Selected a sample of sales contracts and read, analyze and identified the distinct performance obligations in these contracts.
For Recognition of discount, incentive, and rebate
• Assessing the appropriateness of the Company's accounting policies relating to discounts, incentives, rebates, etc. by comparing with applicable accounting standards.
• Assessing the design and testing the implementation and operating effectiveness of Company's internal controls over the approvals, calculation, provision and disbursement of discounts, incentives and rebates.
• Obtaining management's computations for discounts, incentives and rebates accruals under applicable schemes, on a sample basis, and comparing the accruals made with the approved schemes.
• Obtaining and inspecting, on a sample basis, supporting documentation for discounts, incentives and rebates recorded and disbursed during the year as well as credit notes issued after the year end date to determine whether these were recorded appropriately.
• Comparing the historical trend of payments and reversal of discounts, incentives and rebates to provisions made to determine the appropriateness of current year provisions.
Based on our audit procedures we have concluded that revenue, discount, incentive and rebates is appropriately recognized, and that there was no evidence of management bias.
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Evaluation of uncertain civil and indirect tax positions and recoverability of amount deposited under protest as recoverable
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Our procedure included:
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The Company has material uncertain civil and indirect tax positions including matters under dispute which involves significant judgment to determine the possible outcome of these disputes.
The eventual outcome of these litigations is uncertain, and the positions taken by the management are based on the application of significant judgement and estimation. The review of these matters requires application and
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Obtained details of completed tax assessments of earlier years and demands as on March 31, 2025, from management. We have done assessment of the managements underlying assumptions in estimating the tax provision and the possible outcome of the disputes.
Based on management estimates and Independent legal opinion taken by Management of the Company
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Key Audit Matters
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interpretation of tax laws and reference to applicable judicial pronouncements.
Based on management judgement and the advice from legal and tax Consultants and considering the merits of the case, the Company has recognized provisions wherever required and for the balance matters, where the management expects favorable outcome, these litigations have been disclosed as contingent liabilities in the Revised Standalone Financial Statements unless the possibility of out flow of resources is considered to be remote.
Given the uncertainty and application of significant judgment in this area in terms of the eventual outcome of litigations, we determined this to be a key audit matter.
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the liability against these matters are not yet certain hence the same has been shown as contingent liability in the current Revised Standalone Financial Statements.
Our procedures on verification of the management's assessment of these matters included:
• Gaining an understanding of the civil and tax related litigations through discussions with the management, including the significant developments, additions and settlements during the year and subsequent to March 31, 2025.
• Inspecting demand notices received from various tax authorities and evaluating the Company's written responses to those matters.
• Evaluating the management's assessment on the likely outcome and potential magnitude by involving experts on complex or significant matters as considered necessary; and
• Assessing the adequacy of the Company's disclosures.
We did not identify any significant exceptions to the management's assessment of the ongoing civil, income tax and indirect tax litigations as a result of the above procedures.
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Information Other than the Revised Standalone Financial Statements and Auditor's Report Thereon
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Company's Annual Report, but does not include the Revised Standalone Financial Statements and our Auditor's Report thereon. The above information is expected to be made available to us after the date of Auditor's Report. Our opinion on the Revised Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusions thereon.
In connection with our audit of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the Revised Standalone Financial Statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
When we read the Annual Report, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance. Management's Responsibility for the Revised Standalone Financial Statements
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these Revised Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the
revised financial position, revised financial performance, revised total comprehensive income, revised cash flow and revised changes in equity of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with relevant Rules issued thereunder.
The respective Management and Board of Directors of the Company / amalgamating companies are responsible for maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company / amalgamating companies 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 Revised Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the Revised Standalone Financial Statements, management 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 management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The respective Board of Directors of the company / amalgamating companies are responsible for overseeing the financial reporting process of the company / amalgamating companies.
Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Revised Standalone 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 Revised Standalone 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 Revised Standalone 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 system 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 management and board of directors .
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's and board of directors 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 Revised Standalone 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 Revised Standalone Financial Statements, including the disclosures, and whether the Revised Standalone Financial Statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial statements of the amalgamating companies to express an opinion on the revised standalone financial statements. For amalgamating companies included in the Revised Standalone Financial Statements, which has been audited by other auditor, such auditor of the amalgamating company remain responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the audit carried out by them. We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion. Our responsibilities in this regard are further described in the section titled "Other Matter" in this audit report.
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 control 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 Revised Standalone Financial Statements for the year ended March 31, 2025, 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.
Other Matters
i. We did not audit the separate financial statements / financial information of one amalgamating subsidiary, whose financial statements / financial information reflect total assets (before amalgamation adjustments) of ' 169.64 crore as at March 31,2025; as well as the total revenue (before amalgamation adjustments) of ' 0.04 crore for the year ended March 31,2025, and net cash outflow (before amalgamation adjustments) amounting to ' 0.05 crore for the year ended March 31, 2025, as considered in these Revised Standalone Financial Statements. These separate financial statements / financial information have been audited by other auditor whose audit report for the year ended March 31, 2025, have been furnished to us by the
management, and our opinion on the Revised Standalone Financial Statements, in so far as it relates to the amount and disclosures included in respect of this amalgamating subsidiary and our report in terms of sub-section (3) of Section 143 of the Act, insofar as it relates to the aforesaid amalgamating subsidiary, is based solely on the report of the other auditor.
ii. In accordance with the provisions of Standard on Auditing 560 (Revised) 'Subsequent Events' issued by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, our audit procedures, in so far as they relate to the revision to the Standalone Financial Statements, have been carried out solely on this matter and no additional procedures have been carried out for any other events occurring after May 27, 2025 (being the date of our earlier audit report on the Original standalone financial statements).Our earlier audit report dated May 27, 2025 on the Original standalone financial statements is superseded by this revised report on the revised standalone financial statements.
Our opinion on the Revised Standalone Financial Statements above and our report on the Other Legal and Regulatory Requirement below, is not modified in respect of above matters with respect to our reliance on the work done and the report of the other auditor.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1 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, on the basis of our comments and in terms of comments in the report of the amalgamating entities, we give in "Annexure A" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
2 As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit and on the considerations of the reports of the other auditor on separate financial statements of the amalgamating subsidiary referred to in the "Other Matters" paragraph above, we report, to the extent applicable 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 to the extent stated in paragraph (i)(vi) below;
c) The revised balance sheet, the revised statement of profit and loss including other comprehensive (loss), the revised statement of cash flows and revised statement of changes in equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the relevant books of accounts;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Revised Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with relevant rules made thereunder, as amended and other accounting principles generally accepted in India;
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on April 01, 2025 and April 10, 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 comment relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith, is as stated in paragraph (b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) and paragraph 2(i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to these Revised Standalone Financial Statements and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B". Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls with reference to Revised Standalone Financial Statements;
h) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the managerial remuneration for the year ended March 31,2025, has been paid / provided by the Company to its directors in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 read with Schedule V to 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 and based on the considerations of the reports of the other auditor on separate financial statements of the amalgamating subsidiary as noted in the "Other Matter" paragraph;
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations as at March 31, 2025, on its financial position in its Revised Standalone Financial Statements - Refer note 54, 55, 56 and 57;
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. a) The management has represented us and other auditor mention in other matters
paragraph that (refer note 72 of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements), to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested by the Company and its amalgamating subsidiaries to or in any other person or entities, including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, 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 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 us and other auditor mention in other matters paragraph that (refer note 72 of the Revised Standalone Financial Statements), to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been received by the Company and its amalgamating subsidiaries from any person or entity, including foreign entities ("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 of the Funding Party ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
c) Based on such audit procedures performed by us and by the other auditor of the amalgamating Company mentioned in other matter paragraph, as considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our or other auditors'
notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause iv (a) and iv (b) contain any material misstatement.
v. a) The final dividend relating to financial year 2023-24 declared or paid during the year ended March 31,2025, by the Company is in compliance with section 123 of the Act.
b) As stated in note 50 to the accompanying Revised Standalone Financial Statements, the Board of Directors of the Company have proposed final dividend for the year ended March 31,2025, which is subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. The dividend declared is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to declaration of dividend.
vi. Based on such audit procedures performed by us and auditor of amalgamating companies, which included test checks, the Company has a widely used its accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and that has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software, except that audit trail feature was not enabled at the database level. During the course of performing our procedures, we did not notice any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
Further, the audit trail, to the extent maintained in the prior year, has been preserved by the Company, wherever applicable, as per the statutory requirements for record retention. Also, refer note 67 to the Revised Standalone Financial Statements.
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