We have audited the accompanying standalone Ind AS financial statements of TREE HOUSE EDUCATION &
ACCESSORIES LIMITED (“the Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31,2025, the Statement of
Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Cash Flow Statement and the Statement of Changes in
Equity for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summery of accounting policies.
Opinion
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone
Ind AS financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair
view in conformity with the Indian accounting standards prescribed under sec 133 of the Act read with companies (Indian
Accounting Standards) rules, 2015, as amended, (“Ind As”) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India
of the standalone state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025 and its loss (including other comprehensive
income), its cash flows and the changes in Equity for the year ended on that date.
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 statement 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. We have determined the matters described below to be key audit matters to be communicated in our
report.
Management’s Responsibility for the Standalone AS Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Companies Act 2013
(“the Act”) with respect to preparation of these standalone Ind AS financial statements to 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 specified in the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 (as amended) 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 Ind As 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 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 Company's Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Auditors’ Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these standalone Ind AS financial statements based on our audit.
We have taken into account the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder including the accounting and
auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the provisions of the Act and
the Rules made thereunder.
We conducted our audit of the standalone Ind AS financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing
specified under Section 143(10) of the Act and other applicable authoritative pronouncements issued by the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India. Those standards and pronouncements require that we comply with ethical requirements
and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone Ind AS financial
statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the standalone
Ind AS financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the
risks of material misstatement of the standalone Ind AS financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making
those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Company's preparation of the
standalone Ind AS financial statements that give a true and fair view, in order to design audit procedures that are
appropriate in the circumstances. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and
the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Company's Directors, as well as evaluating the overall
presentation of the standalone Ind AS financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion
on the standalone Ind AS financial statements.
Basis of Forming an Opinion
1. Confirmation letters have been sent by the Company to sundry creditors and debtors and parties to whom loans &
advances, deposits have been granted for confirming the balances lying in their ledger accounts in books of the
Company. The balances under these heads have been shown as per books of accounts and are subject to
confirmation, reconciliation and adjustment, if any.
2. Mr. Rajesh Bhatia & Anr. (Promoters of the Company) filed an appeal before Securities Appellate Tribunal (“SAT”)
against an Order No WTM/SM/IVD-ID-1/28/2021-22 dated May, 24, 2021 received from Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) under the provisions of sections 11(1), 11(4), 11B(1), 11B(2) and 11(4A) of the Securities and
Exchange Board of India Act, 1992. Accordingly, the SAT vide its order dated August 30, 2021 directed the promoters
of the Company to deposit a sum of Rs. 15 lakhs as security deposit with respondent and stayed the SEBI order
Dated 24th May, 2021 i.e. Securities and Exchange Board of India, the said amount was deposited on time as per the
order.
Final order in this regard has been received on 27th March, 2025 from Honourable Securities Appellate Tribunal
(SAT) Mumbai in favour of promoters of the Company which has set aside the order passed by the Whole Time
Member of SEBI dated 24th May, 2021.
3. There was an ongoing arbitration matter between the Company and Janodhar Sikhshan Prasarak Mandal and
others (“Respondents”) in which the company has received order in its favour on January 11, 2021 wherein the
company shall receive compensation from the Respondents. The company continues to pursue legal options for
recovery of proceeds as per the order.
4. There was an ongoing arbitration matter between the Company and its franchisee Warren Connor (“Respondent”)
for non-payment of royalty fees in which the company has received an award in its favour on October 3, 2023 wherein
the company shall receive compensation from the Respondent. The company continues to pursue legal options for
recovery of proceeds as per the order.
5. Forensic Audit by Economic Offence Wing of Mumbai Police against the Company for the period from F.Y. 2011-12 to
2017-18 is underway. The Company is defending/pursuing legal cases on various forums against itself and its past
directors.
6. The Company has received a letter dated 20.04.2023 from the Educational Trust Vidya Bharti Samiti, showing the
dissatisfaction of service provided to them for which the company in accordance with the Service Agreement dated
01.04.2012, Addendum dated 6.11.2012 and agreement dated 01.04.2013 with them. In response, The Company
has invoked the arbitration clause contained in the agreement vide letter dated. 16th May 2023, to adjudicate upon
the disputes and differences which have arisen between The Company and the Education Trust for which the Hon
Bombay High Court has appointed a Sole Arbitrator on 11th December 2023 to resolve the case.
7. Mira Education Trust has filed Civil Suit before the Hon Vadordra Civil Judge (CD) against Zebar Realty LLP in which
company has also been named as defendant.
8. The Company has received summons on 22nd March 2024 and on 30th March 2024 from Court in Vadodhara,
Gujarat for Physical appearance on the case filed by Zebar Realty LLP, for forceful occupation of the property by
‘Mira Education Trust', who runs ‘Tree House High School' on his property which was sold to his firm ‘Zebar Realty
LLP' by ‘Tree House Education and Accessories Limited' in the financial year 2022-23.
An FIR was filed on 26.02.2025 against company, its Managing Director, Directors and KMPs. by Vadodara
Detection of Crime Branch on the orders of the Land Grabbing Committee, Vadodara, relating to a dispute of a
property sold by the company in Vadodara. Further on 02.03.2025 2 Independent Directors were arrested by
Vadodara Crime branch from Mumbai. On 03.03.2025 Special Criminal Application (SCRA) No 3449 of 2025 was
filed before Gujarat high Court by the company and its directors / KMPS. On 10.03.2025 regular bail was granted by
Special Court, Vadodara City to both the arrested directors and said directors were released. On 10.03.2025
Anticipatory Bail was granted by Special Court, Vadodara to Independent Directors. On 20.03.2025 Anticipatory Bail
was granted by Special Court, Vadodara to Executive directors and the company secretary.
Further Hon. High Court of Gujarat by its order dated 20.03.2025 (received by Company on 21.03.2025) in SCRA No
3449 of 2025 has granted interim relief to the company and its officers restraining the police authorities from
taking coercive action and not to file any charge sheet without the prior permission of the Gujarat High Court and
thus admitted the Company's petition for final hearing.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2016, issued by the Central Government of India, in terms
of section 143(11) of the Act (“The Order”), 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 B” 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 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 purpose 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.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income) and the Cash Flow
Statement and the 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.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2025, none of the
directors are disqualified as of 31st March, 2025 from being appointed as director in terms of Section 164(2) of
the Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the
operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in “Annexure A”. Our report expresses an
unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the company's financial controls over
financial reporting.
g) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software for
maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 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. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail
feature being tampered with and the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory
requirements for record retention.
h) As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1,2023, reporting under
Rule11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutory
requirements for record retention is not applicable for the financial year ended March 31,2025.
i) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with the
requirements to section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information
and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during
the year are in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.
j) With respect to 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:
i. There are pending litigations and suits filed against the company and its past directors which may impact its
financial position. The Company has not disclosed the impact of such pending litigations.
ii. The Company did not have any long term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any
material foreseeable losses.
Rakesh Soni & Company
Chartered Accountants
F.R.N. 114625W
CA R K Soni
Partner
M. No. 047151
UDIN : 25047151BMOHWG2184
Date : 09/05/2025
Place : Mumbai
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