InfraLive September-15, 2025

Fear of Forensic Audit www.infralive.com 38 InfraLIVE September 15, 2025 Internal e-mails exposes malpractices and fear of Special Audit order by court The language used in these e-mails on breaking FDs suspect of serious fraudulant activities in the Hospital Legal Firm Group 2 Dear all, I thought deeply over the Legal opinion, on our breaking the deposits. I fully agree with the views expressed in the legal opinion. If we go to the court, pandora's box shall get opened, and for sure, the high court/ Supreme Court, shall concede any request for a forensic audit, and our poor performance shall come to light, and the likelihood of a retd judge ge ng appointed as an Administrator, cannot be ruled out. So, it is an be er op on for us to go in for drawing overdra s, ll such me we break even/ and start making profits. But let me make it categorically clear, that this is only postponement of the danger. Even drawing overdra s indefinitely, is thoroughly indefensible. So we must constantly push for profitability. So the immediate need of the hour, is to increase elec ve surgeries, do serious cost cu ng, and serious monitoring of the deteriora ng finances, and the performance of the hospital. Last but not the least, it is high me that Rashmi, Bhawin, on one side and chetan on the other, bury their hatchets, as far as hospital administra on is concerned. If all the above is not done, our losing control of the hospital is more or less, an certainty. My advice may be kindly taken the right spirit. High regards, S. Lakshminarayanan, IAS. Principal Advisor Principal Advisor to Trust Group 2 Dear Chetanbhai, As discussed with with Mr. Prateek Seksaria, counsel regarding filing of the captioned application, following points for deliberation arose: 1. At the time of filing the trust/hospital will have to disclose their accounts to the court and to the other side (Mr. Kishore Mehta and Mrs. Charu Mehta) 2. Trust/Hospital will have to disclose that there is no reserve generated by the hospital for last 2–3 years. 3. Hospital is regularly using over draft facility for meeting its expenses. 4. Hospital has been using the FD interest it receives on meeting it's expenses. In view of the above disclosures, there is an apprehension that following actions may follow from Mr. Kishore Mehta and Mrs. Charu Mehta: 1. An application for removal of board of trustees in management for mismanagement and/or poor management as the trust has not created any new reserves in the last 2–3 years. 2. Request to the courts including Hon'ble Supreme court and High court seeking directions for conducting special audit of the trust and action pursuant thereto. 3. Application seeking appointment of Administrator on the trust and hospital. 4. Negative publicity of the affairs of the hospital. Mr. Seksaria also is of the view that endeavour should be made for not filing of this application for the reasons mentioned hereinabove. He feels that chances of adverse consequences following the application outweighs the objective it is trying to achieve. However, if it is inevitable we are ready with the application to be filed anytime. Please deliberate on the issue and revert Dhirendra Sinha