1. We have audited the annexed Balance Sheet of Anant Raj Industries
Limited as on March 31, 2011, the Profit and Loss Account and also the
Cash Flow Statement for the year ended on that date annexed thereto.
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company''s
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit.
2. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards
generally accepted in India. Those standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for
our opinion.
3. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2003, as
amended by the Companies (Auditors’ Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004,
[Order], issued by the Central Government of India in terms of
sub-section (4A) of section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956 and on the
basis of such checks of the books and records of the Company as we
considered appropriate and according to the information and
explanations given to us, we give in the Annexure a statement on the
matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
4. Further to our comments in Annexure referred to in paragraph 3
above, we report that:
(a) We have 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 appears from our examination of
those books.
(c) The Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement
dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash
Flow Statement dealt with by this report comply with the accounting
standards referred to in sub-section (3C) of section 211 of the
Companies Act, 1956.
(e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors
and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is
disqualified as on March 31, 2011 from being appointed as a director in
the terms of clause (g) of sub-section (1) of section 274 of the
Companies Act, 1956.
(f) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to
the explanations given to us, the said financial statements read
together with accounting policies and notes thereon and attached
thereto give in the prescribed manner the information required by the
Companies Act,
1956, give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting
principles generally accepted in India:
i) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2011;
ii) in the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date; and
iii) in the case of the Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows for the
year ended on that date.
Annexure to Auditor’s Report
[Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors’ Report of even date to the
Members of Anant Raj Industries Limited on the Financial Statements for
the year ended March 31, 2011]
i) In respect of fixed assets:
a) The Company is maintaining proper fixed assets records showing full
particulars, including quantitative details and situation of fixed
assets.
b) The fixed assets were physically verified by the management at
reasonable intervals during the previous year and no material
discrepancies were noticed on such verification as compared to book
records.
c) In our opinion, the Company has not disposed off a substantial part
of its fixed assets during the year and the going concern status of the
Company is not affected.
ii) In respect of inventories:
a) The inventory includes land, buildings, construction
work-in-progress, construction and development material, development
rights, raw materials, stores and spares and finished goods were
physically verified by the management at reasonable intervals during
the year. The verification of raw materials lying in loose form like
clay was carried out based upon parameters of volume and weight.
b) In our opinion, the procedures of physical verification of inventory
followed by the management are reasonable and adequate in relation to
the size of the Company and the nature of its business.
c) The Company is maintaining proper records of inventory. The
discrepancies noticed on physical verification of inventory as compared
to book records were not material and have been properly dealt with in
the books of account.
iii) The Company has neither granted nor taken any loans, secured or
unsecured, to or from companies, firms or other parties covered in the
register maintained under section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956.
iv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there are adequate internal control systems commensurate
with the size of the Company and the nature of its business for the
purchase of inventory, fixed assets and for the sale of goods. Further,
on the basis of our examination of the books and records of the
Company, and according to the information and explanations given to us,
we have neither come across nor have been informed of any continuing
failure to correct major weaknesses in the aforesaid internal control
systems.
v) In respect of contracts or arrangements referred to in section 301
of the Companies Act, 1956:
a) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
transactions made in pursuance of contracts or arrangements that need
to be entered in the register maintained under section 301 of the
Companies Act, 1956, have so been entered.
b) Transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements
have been made at prices which are reasonable having regard to the
prevailing market prices at the relevant time.
vi) The Company has not accepted any deposits from public within the
meaning of sections 58A, 58AA or any other relevant provisions of the
Companies Act, 1956 and the rules framed there under.
vii) In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
viii) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Central Government has not prescribed the maintenance of cost records
under clause (d) of sub- section (1) of section 209 of the Companies
Act, 1956 for the products of the Company.
ix) a) According to the information and explanations given to us and
the records of the Company examined by us, in our opinion, the Company
is generally regular in depositing the undisputed statutory dues
including provident fund, employees’ state insurance, income tax, sales
tax, wealth tax, service tax, custom duty, excise duty, cess and other
statutory dues as applicable with the appropriate authorities except
for a few instances of slight delay in deposit.
b) According to the information and explanations given to us, no
undisputed amounts payable in respect of provident fund, employees’
state insurance, income tax, sales tax, wealth tax, service tax, custom
duty, excise duty, cess and other statutory dues were outstanding, as
at March 31, 2011, for a period of more than six
months from the date they became payable. The Company has not charged
and consequently, not deposited service tax amounting Rs. 597.87 lacs
on revenue from leasing of immovable property, relying on order dated
April 18, 2009 of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi. The Company does not
consider itself liable to pay service tax as the liability to deposit
service tax on rental revenues is contractually recoverable from the
tenants and therefore, the same has not been considered for the purpose
of this report
c) According to the information and explanations given to us, there are
no dues of wealth tax, service tax, custom duty, excise duty and cess
that have not been deposited with appropriate authorities on account of
dispute. There are dues of income tax, sales tax and value added tax
that have not been deposited with appropriate authorities on account of
dispute. The forum where the disputes are pending are given below:
Name of Nature of Amount Period to
the dues Rs. which
Statue amount
relates
Haryana Sales tax 8,550,807* 2002-03
General Sales
tax Act, 1973
Haryana Value added 13,164,978* 2003-04
Value Added tax
Tax Act, 2003
Income tax Income tax 27912346# 1997-98
Act, 1961
1998-99
1999-2000
Name of Forum where dispute Present status as on the
the is pending date of this Report
statue
Haryana Hon''ble High Court of Writ petition filed by
General sales the Punjab & Haryana, Company is pending
tax Act, 1973 Chandigarh before the Hon''ble High
Court of Punjab &
Haryana, Chandigarh
Haryana Hon''ble High Court of Writ petition filed by
Value Added Punjab & Haryana, Company is pending before
Tax Act, 2003 Chandigarh the Hon''ble High Court of
Punjab & Haryana,
Chandigarh
Income tax Hon''ble High Court Appeal filed by the Company
Act, 1961 of Delhi is pending before the
Hon''ble High of Delhi
* Amounts are net of payments made and without considering interest for
the overdue period, if any, as may be levied if demand as raised is
upheld.
# Excluding interest and additional tax.
x) The Company has no accumulated losses as at the end of the year and
it has not incurred any cash losses during the financial year covered
by our audit and in the immediately preceding financial year.
xi) According to the records of the Company examined by us and the
information and explanation given to us, the Company has not defaulted
in repayment of dues to its Bankers.
xii) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has not granted any loans and advances on the basis of security
by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities.
xiii) The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit
fund/nidhi/mutual benefit fund/ societies are not applicable to the
Company.
xiv) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company does not deal or trade in shares, securities or debentures.
Proper records have been maintained of the transactions and contracts
in respect of the investments made by the Company. The investments are
held by the Company in its own name.
xv) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has given Corporate guarantees of Rs. 160 Crores to banks to
secure the credit facility extended by the banks to its 2 (two)
subsidiary companies, against which outstanding amount as at March 31,
2011 is Rs. 1,000.34 lacs.
xvi) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, term loans have been applied for the purpose for which
they were obtained.
xvii) According to the information and explanations given to us and on
an overall examination of the Balance Sheet of the Company, no funds
raised on a short term basis have been used for long term investment.
xviii) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has not made any preferential allotment of equity shares to
parties or companies covered under register maintained under section
301 of the Companies Act, 1956.
xix) The Company has not issued any debentures during the year.
xx) The Company has not raised any money by way of public issue during
the year. The funds raised through issue of global depository receipts
are being utilized for the purpose for which they were raised.
xxi) During the course of our examination of the books and record of
the Company, carried out in accordance with the generally accepted
auditing practices in India, and according to the information and
explanations given to us, we have neither come across any instance of
fraud on or by the Company, noticed or reported during the year, nor
have we been informed of such case by the management.
B. Bhushan & Co.
Chartered Accountants
By the hand of
Kamal Ahluwalia
Partner
Membership no. 093812
Firm Regn. No.:001596N
117, New Delhi House
Barakhamba Road
New Delhi.
May 28, 2011
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