We have audited the standalone financial statements of
Sagar Cements Limited (the "Company”) which comprise
the standalone balance sheet as at 31 March 2026, and the
standalone statement of profit and loss (including other
comprehensive income), standalone statement of changes
in equity and standalone statement of cash flows for the
year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial
statements, including 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 ("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 31 March 2026, and its profit and other
comprehensive loss, changes in equity and its cash flows for
the year ended on that date.

BASIS FOR OPINION

We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards
on Auditing (SAs) specified under Section 143(10) of
the Act. Our responsibilities under those SAs 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 standalone 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 opinion on the
standalone financial statements.

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 of the current period. 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.

OTHER INFORMATION

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 which includes statutory reports such as Management
discussion and analysis, Business responsibility and
sustainability report, Corporate governance and Board's report,
but does not include the financial statements and 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 the other information
is materially inconsistent with the standalone 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.

MANAGEMENT'S AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS'
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE 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 standalone financial
statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs,
profit/ loss and other comprehensive income, changes in
equity and cash flows 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. 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 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, the
Management and Board of Directors are 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 the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the
Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative
but to do so.

The Board of Directors is 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 the Management and Board
of Directors.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of the Management
and Board of Directors use of the going concern basis of
accounting in preparation of standalone financial statements
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 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 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
of the current period 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 MATTER

The standalone financial statements of the Company for the
year ended 31 March 2025 were audited by the predecessor
auditor who had expressed an unmodified opinion on
12 May 2025.

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 Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in
the "Annexure A” a statement on the matters specified in
paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.

2 A. 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 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 matters stated in the paragraph 2(B)(f) below
on reporting under Rule 11 (g) of the Companies
(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.

c. The standalone balance sheet, the standalone
statement of profit and loss (including other
comprehensive income), the standalone statement
of changes in equity and the standalone statement
of cash flows 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 Ind AS specified under
Section 133 of the Act.

e. On the basis of the written representations received
from the directors on 01 April 2026 taken on record
by the Board of Directors, none of the directors

is disqualified as on 31 March 2026 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 the paragraph 2(A)(b) above on

reporting under Section 143(3)(b) of the Act and
paragraph 2(B)(f) 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 financial
statements of the Company and the operating
effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate
Report in "Annexure B”.

B. 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, in our
opinion and to the best of our information and according
to the explanations given to us:

a. The Company has disclosed the impact of
pending litigations as at 31 March 2026 on its
financial position in its standalone financial
statements - Refer Note 29(a) to the standalone
financial statements.

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

c. There has been no delay in transferring amounts,
required to be transferred, to the Investor Education
and Protection Fund by the Company.

d (i) The management has represented that, to the
best of their knowledge and belief, as disclosed
in the Note 46(v) to the standalone financial
statements, 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 entity(ies), including foreign entities
("Intermediaries”), with the understanding,
whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that
the Intermediary shall 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.

(ii) The management has represented that, to the
best of their knowledge and belief, as disclosed
in the Note 46(vi) to the standalone financial
statements, no funds have been received by
the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies),
including foreign entities ("Funding Parties”),
with the understanding, whether recorded in
writing or otherwise, that the Company shall
directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other
persons or entities identified in any manner
whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding
Parties ("Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any
guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the
Ultimate Beneficiaries.

(iii) Based on the audit procedures 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 (i) and (ii) of
Rule 11(e), as provided under (i) and (ii) above,
contain any material misstatement.

e. The Company has neither declared nor paid any
dividend during the year.

f. Based on our examination which included test
checks, except for the instances mentioned below,
the Company has used accounting software for
maintaining its books of account, which have a

feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility
and the same has operated throughout the
year for all relevant transactions recorded in the
respective software:

i. In case of an accounting software used for
general ledger, audit trail (edit log) facility was
not enabled at the application level for certain
fields relating to master data.

Further, the audit trail (edit log) facility at the
database level was not enabled for certain
fields in tables relating to books of account.
Accordingly, we are unable to comment on
whether there were any instances of the audit
trail logs being tampered with.

ii. In the absence of an independent auditor's
report from 1 January 2026 to 31 March
2026 in relation to controls at a service
organization for an accounting software used
for maintaining the books of account relating to
leave records of employees, which is operated
by a third-party software service provider, we
are unable to comment whether audit trail
feature for the said software was enabled

at the database level to log any direct data
changes and operated from 1 January 2026
to 31 March 2026 for all relevant transactions
recorded in the software. Further, as per the
independent auditor's report for the period
from 1 April 2025 to 31 December 2025, the
feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility
was enabled at the database level from 3
April 2025.