We have audited the accompanying standalone financial
statements of CarTrade Tech Limited (“the Company”),
which comprise the Balance sheet as at March 31, 2026, the
Statement of Profit and Loss, including the statement of Other
Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Cash Flows 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, 2026, 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.

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 31,2026.
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.

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 information
included in the Annual report, but does not include the standalone
financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Annual
report is expected to be made available to us after the date of
this auditor’s report.

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.

When we read the Annual report, if we conclude that there is a
material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate
the matter to those charged with governance and determine the
actions under the applicable laws and regulations.

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 loss, 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, 2026 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 RegulatoryRequirements

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,
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 matters stated in the paragraph (i)(vi) below on
reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit
and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended;

(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss
including the Statement of Other Comprehensive
Income, the Statement of Cash Flows 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, 2026 taken
on record by the Board of Directors, none of the
directors is disqualified as on March 31, 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 (b) above on reporting
under Section 143(3)(b) and paragraph (i)(vi) below
on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies
(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended;

(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial
controls with reference to these 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 31,2026 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 33
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 persons 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 persons 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. The Company has migrated to new accounting
software from its legacy accounting software
during the year for maintaining its books of
account. Based on our examination which
included test checks, the Company has used
accounting softwares 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 softwares, except in respect of
the new accounting software which is operated
by a third-party software service provider and as
described in note 38 to the standalone financial
statements, in absence of Service Organisation
Controls report which covers reporting on audit
trail feature, we are unable to comment on

whether audit trail feature for direct changes
to data when using certain access rights was
enabled and operated throughout the year for all
relevant transactions recorded in the application
or whether there were any instances of the audit
trail feature being tampered with. Further, during
the course of our audit, we did not come across
any instance of audit trail feature being tampered
with in respect of accounting softwares where
the audit trail has been enabled. Additionally, the
audit trail of prior years 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 years.

For S.R. Batliboi & Associates LLP

Chartered Accountants
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per Ritesh Gada

Partner

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