We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Milkfood Limited (“the Company”), which comprise the standalone Balance Sheet as at March 31,2026, 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 for the year ended on that date, notes to the standalone financial statements including the material accounting policy information and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as “the standalone financial statements”).
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, (“the Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards (“Ind AS”) specified under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2026, its profit including total comprehensive income, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Modified Opinion:
Attention is drawn to Note no 24(i)(b) regarding the revaluation of Land of Rs. 3197 Lakhs resulting in Profits before tax/ Retained Earnings higher and OCI/Revaluation Surplus lower to that extent as per Ind AS 16, Note no 24(i)(2) regarding retrospective re-evaluation of useful economic life of Vehicle resulting in overstatement of profit before tax/ other equity and PPE to the extent of Rs 251 Lakhs, Note no 24(i)(3) in respect of share based expense of Rs 318 Lakhs net of from other income instead of separate classification in Employee benefit expense as per Ind AS 102.Consequentally basic and diluted Earning per share as per note 32 is Rs. 18.17 and Rs. 17.30 instead of Rs. 4.02 and Rs. 3.83 respectively.
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) 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 (ICAI) 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 made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI’s 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.
Emphasis of matter:
We draw attention to Note No 24(i)(a) regarding profit on sale of Property , Plant and Equipment, Note No 6(ii) regarding Trade Receivables, Note No 8(ii) regarding Advance to suppliers/ employees, Note no 12(ii) regarding GST matters
Our opinion is not qualified in respect of these matters.
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 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 key matter mentioned 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.
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The Key Audit Matter
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How the matter was addressed in our audit
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Provisions and Contingent Liabilities relating to Taxations, litigations and claims: (Refer note 34)
The company operates in various states within India, exposing it to a variety of different Central and State Direct and Indirect Tax Laws, regulations and interpretations thereof, claims and general legal proceedings (litigations) arising in the ordinary course of business which includes complexities due to uncertain Tax positions.
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Our procedures included, but were not limited to the following:
• Assessed the appropriateness of the Company’s accounting policies relating to provisions and contingent liabilities, in accordance with the applicable accounting standards;
• Obtained an understanding of the process, and evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of the key internal controls around the recording and assessment of provisions and contingent liabilities.
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The Key Audit Matter
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How the matter was addressed in our audit
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Provisions are recognised when the company has present obligations (legal or constructive) as a result of past event for which it is probable that a cash outflow will be required and reliable estimate can be made of the amount of that obligation.
Contingent liability disclosure is made where there is a possible obligation or present obligation that probably may not require outflow of resources. When there is a possible or present obligation where the likelihood of outflow of resources is remote, no provision or disclosure is made.
The level of judgment of the management in determining the need for, and quantum of, provision for liabilities, or disclosure of contingent liabilities arising from these litigations is high.
This judgment is dependent upon significant assumptions and assessment which involves interpretations of various Laws, jurisprudence for which management involves the experts on the subject matter.
In view of the uncertainty of the outcome, significance of amounts involved and the subjectivity involved in management’ s judgments, the matter has been considered as a Key Audit Matter for the Audit of the current year.
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• On a sample basis, performed substantive procedures on the underlying calculations supporting the amount involved recorded as provisions or disclosed as contingent liability; and
• Evaluated the appropriateness and adequacy of related disclosures in the standalone financial statements in accordance with applicable accounting standards.
Reviewing the outstanding litigations against the Company for consistency with the previous years, enquire and obtain explanations for movement during the year.
Discussing the status of significant known actual and potential litigations with the Company’s in-house officials and other senior management personnel who have knowledge of these matters and assessing their responses.
Examining the Company’s legal expenses and perusing the minutes of the board meetings, in order to ensure that all cases have been identified.
Assessing the decisions and rationale for provisions held or for decisions not to record provisions or make disclosures.
For those matters where management concluded that no provisions should be recorded, considered the adequacy and completeness of the Company’s disclosures.
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Information Other than the Standalone Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report Thereon
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report through Management Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Report including Annexures thereto, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governance and Shareholder’s Information, 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 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 identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financial statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
After reading the annual report, if we conclude, basis the work performed by us, that there is a material misstatement in the other information , we communicate the matter to those charged with governance and describe actions applicable under the Act, other applicable laws and regulations.
Management’s and Board of Directors Responsibility 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 and total 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 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 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 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 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 scepticism 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 financial controls 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 system 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 Management and Board of Directors 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 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 for the 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 Regulatory Requirements
1 As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit, 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 of accompanying standalone financial statements.
(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 possible effects of matters stated in paragraph (i)(vi) below on reporting in relation to audit trail as required under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 (as amended);
(c) The standalone financial statements 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 Indian Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act except to the extent described in para “ Modified basis of opinion” and “Emphasis of matter” para stated above.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors and 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 in relation to audit trail are as stated in paragraph (b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) of the Act 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 the standalone financial statements of the Company as on 31st March 2026 and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in “Annexure B” wherein we have expressed an unmodified opinion.
(h) As required by Section 197(16) of the Act based on our audit, we report that the Company has paid remuneration to its directors during the year in accordance with the provisions of and limits laid down under 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, 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 as at 31 st March, 2026 on its financial position in its standalone financial statements. (Refer note 34 of financial statements).
ii. The Company, as certified, did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses as at 31st March, 2026. Accordingly no provision has been recognised under applicable Ind As and applicable law.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended 31st March, 2026;
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in Note 43 to the
standalone financial statements, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) 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 or entity(ies), including foreign entity or entity(ies) (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in any other person(s) 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, as disclosed in Note 43 to the standalone financial statements no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any person (s) 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 person(s) 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 the 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 management representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11 (e), as described under (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
v. Based on our examination which included test checks and in accordance with requirements of the Implementation Guide on Reporting on Audit Trail under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, the Company in respect of financial year commencing on 1 st April, 2025, has used accounting software’s 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. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with for the period where audit trail is enabled and operated and for this we also relied upon the certificate of the management. Furthermore, the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention where the audit trail feature was enabled. Further, the daily back-up of audit trail (edit log) in respect of its accounting software for maintenance of all accounting records, an accounting software for journal entries has been maintained on the servers as mentioned in Note no 46 to the standalone financial statements.
vi. In respect of accounting software used for journal entries, the audit trail at data base level is preserved for preceding 365 days.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (the “Order”) issued by the Central Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in “Annexure A” a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order to the extent applicable.
for Madan and Associates
Chartered Accountants Firm’s registration number: 000185N
M.K. Madan
(proprietor)
Place: New Delhi Membership number: 082214
Date : 22.05.2026 UDIN:
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