We have audited the financial statements of Orient Paper
& Industries Limited (the “Company”) which comprise the
balance sheet as at 31 March 2025, and the statement of
profit and loss (including other comprehensive income),
statement of changes in equity and statement of cash
flows for the year then ended, and notes to the 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
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 2025, and its loss 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 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 obtained by
us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our
opinion on the financial statements.

Key Audit Matter

Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional
judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the
financial statements of the current period. These matters
were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial
statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon,
and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.

Litigations

See Note 48 to the financial statements

Litigations (Contd.)

See Note 48 to the financial statements

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, but does not include the financial
statements and auditor’s reports thereon.

Our opinion on the 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 financial statements,
our responsibility is to read the other information and,
in doing so, consider whether the 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.

Management’s and Board of Directors’
Responsibilities for the 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 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.
The Management and Board of Directors of the Company
are responsible for 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 financial statements
that give a true and fair view and are free from material
misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the 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
Financial Statements

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

As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise
professional judgment and maintain professional
skepticism throughout the audit. We also:

Ý Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement
of the 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.

Ý 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.

Ý Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies
used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates

and related disclosures made by the Management and
Board of Directors.

Ý Conclude on the appropriateness of the Management
and Board of Directors use of the going concern basis
of accounting in preparation of 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 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.

Ý Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and
content of the financial statements, including the
disclosures, and whether the 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 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.

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
following matters, (i) the back-up of the
books of account and other relevant books
and papers in electronic mode has not been
kept on servers physically located in India
on a daily basis pertaining to the unit at
Brajrajnagar and (ii) the matters stated in the
paragraph 2B(f) below on reporting under
Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and
Auditors) Rules, 2014.

c. The balance sheet, the statement of profit and
loss (including other comprehensive income),
the statement of changes in equity and the
statement of cash flows dealt with by this
Report are in agreement with the books of
account.

d. In our opinion, the aforesaid 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 as on 01 April
2025 taken on record by the Board of
Directors, none of the directors is disqualified
as on 31 March 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 the paragraph 2A(b)
above on reporting under Section 143(3)
(b) of the Act and paragraph 2B(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 2025 on its
financial position in its financial statements -
Refer Note 48 to the 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 its knowledge and
belief, as disclosed in the Note 53 to
the 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 its knowledge and
belief, as disclosed in the Note 53 to
the 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 final dividend paid by the Company during
the year, in respect of the same declared

for the previous year, is in accordance with
Section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies
to payment of dividend.

The Company has not declared any dividend
during the year.

f. Based on our examination which included test
checks, the Company has used accounting
softwares for maintaining its books of account
which has a feature of recording audit trail
(edit log) facility except that (i) In the absence
of relevant evidences, we are unable to
comment whether the audit trail feature
to log any direct data changes to database
was operating through out the year for the
accounting software used for maintaining
general ledger and (ii) the feature of recording
audit trail (edit log) facility has not been
enabled for an accounting software used for
maintaining general ledger pertaining to the
unit at Brajrajnagar. Further, where audit trail
(edit log) facility was enabled and operated
throughout the year, we did not come across
any instance of audit trail feature being
tampered with during the course of our audit.

Additionally, except where audit trail (edit
log) facility was not enabled and operated
in previous year, the audit trail has been
preserved by the Company as per the
statutory requirements for record retention.

C. With respect to the matter to be included in the
Auditor’s Report under Section 197(16) of the
Act:

In our opinion and according to the information
and explanations given to us, the remuneration
paid by the Company to its directors during the
current year is in accordance with the provisions
of Section 197 read with Schedule V of the Act.
The remuneration paid to a whole time director
is in excess of the limit laid down under Section
197 read with Schedule V of the Act, however,
necessary approval with respect to the same
has been obtained by the Company (refer note
44 to the financial statements). The Ministry of
Corporate Affairs has not prescribed other details
under Section 197(16) of the Act which are
required to be commented upon by us.

For B S R & Co. LLP

Chartered Accountants
Firm’s Registration No.:101248W/W-100022

Jayanta Mukhopadhyay

Partner

Place: Kolkata Membership No.: 055757

Date: 22 May 2025 ICAI UDIN:25055757BMNSHM9283