We have audited the standalone financial statements of
Shoppers Stop Limited ("the Company"), which comprise
the Balance sheet as at March 31 2025, the Statement
of Profit and Loss, including the statement of Other
Comprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statement and
the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then
ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements,
including a summary of material accounting policies and
other explanatory information

In our opinion and to the best of our information and
according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid
standalone financial statements give the information
required by the Companies Act, 2013, as amended ("the
Act") in the manner so required and give a true and
fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2025, its profit including other
comprehensive loss its cash flows and the changes in
equity for the year ended on that date.

Basis for Opinion

We conducted our audit of the standalone financial
statements in accordance with the Standards on
Auditing (SAs), as 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 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 together with
the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit
of the financial statements under the provisions of the
Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our
other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these

requirements and the 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 standalone financial statements.

Emphasis of Matter

We draw attention to Note 29 to the standalone financial
statements regarding non-provision of retrospective levy
of service tax for the period from June 01, 2007 to March
31, 2010 on renting of immoveable properties given for
commercial use, aggregating to Rs 16.60 crores, pending
final disposal of the appeal filed before the Supreme
Court.

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 standalone financial statements for the
financial year ended March 31,2025. These matters were
addressed in the context of our audit of the standalone
financial statements as a whole, and in forming our
opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate
opinion on these matters. For each matter below, our
description of how our audit addressed the matter is
provided in that context.

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 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 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 standalone financial
statements

We have determined that there are no other key audit
matters to communicate in our report.

Information Other than the Financial Statements and
Auditor's Report Thereon

The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the
other information. The other information comprises the
draft Corporate Governance Report and draft Director's
report, but does not include the standalone financial
statements and our auditor's report thereon.

Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does
not cover the other information and we do not express
any form of assurance conclusion 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 such
other information is materially inconsistent with the
financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the
audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude
that there is a material misstatement of this other
information, we are required to report that fact. We have
nothing to report in this regard.

Responsibilities of Management for the Standalone
Financial Statements

The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the
matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to
the preparation of these standalone financial statements
that give a true and fair view of the financial position,
financial performance including other comprehensive
income, cash flows and changes in equity of the Company
in accordance with the accounting principles generally
accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting
Standards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of
the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting
Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended. This responsibility
also includes maintenance of adequate accounting
records in accordance with the provisions of the Act
for safeguarding of the assets of the Company 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 the 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 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 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.

Those Board of Directors are also responsible for
overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.

Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the
Standalone Financial Statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance
about whether the 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 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 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 control 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 with reference
to financial statements 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.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's
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 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 standalone financial statements,
including the disclosures, and whether the
standalone financial statements represent the
underlying transactions and events in a manner that
achieves fair presentation.

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 standalone
financial statements for the financial 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.

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 of india in terms of sub-section (11) of
section 143 of the Act, based on our audit we give
in the "Annexure 1" a statement on the matters
specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.

2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, 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 the matter stated in
paragraph (vi) below on reporting under Rule

11(g);

(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit
and Loss including the Statement of Other
Comprehensive income, the Cash Flow
Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity
dealt with by this Report are in agreement with
the books of account;

(d) in our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial
statements comply with the Accounting
Standards specified under Section 133 of the
Act, read with Companies (indian Accounting
Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended;

(e) On the basis of the written representations
received from the directors as on March 31,
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 modification relating to the maintenance
of accounts and other matters connected
therewith are as stated in paragraph (b) above
on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) and
paragraph (vi) below on reporting under rule

11(g) ;

(g) With respect to the adequacy of the
internal financial controls with reference
to standalone financial statements and the
operating effectiveness of such controls, refer
to our separate Report in "Annexure 2" to this
report;

(h) in our opinion, 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:

i. The Company has disclosed the impact of
pending litigations on its financial position
in its standalone financial statements -
Refer Note 28 to the standalone financial
statements;

ii. The Company did not have any long-term
contracts including derivative contracts for
which there were any material foreseeable
losses;

iii. There were no amounts which were
required to be transferred to the investor
Education and Protection Fund by the
Company.

iv. a) The management has represented

that, to the best of its knowledge and
belief, no funds have been advanced
or loaned or invested (either from
borrowed funds or share premium
or any other sources or kind of
funds) by the Company to or in any

other person(s) 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
that, to the best of its knowledge
and belief, no funds have been
received by the Company from
any person(s) or entities, 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 that have been considered
reasonable and appropriate in the
circumstances, nothing has come
to our notice that has caused us
to believe that the representations
under sub-clause (a) and (b) contain
any material misstatement.

v. No dividend has been declared or paid
during the year by the Company.

vi. Based on our examination which included
test checks, the Company has used
accounting software for maintaining its
books of account which has a feature of
recording audit trail (edit log) facility and
the same has operated throughout the
year for all relevant transactions recorded
in the software except where the audit
trail feature at the database level in so far
as it relates to SAP accounting software is
enabled from 6 February 2025 as described
in Note 40(h) to the financial statements.

Additionally, the audit trail of prior year
has been preserved by the Company as
per the statutory requirements for record
retention to the extent it was enabled and
recorded in the respective year.

For S R B C & CO LLP

Chartered Accountants
ICAI Firm Registration Number: 324982E/E300003

per Firoz Pradhan

Partner

Place: Mumbai Membership Number: 109360

Date: April 29, 2025 UDIN: 25109360BMKYGK7834