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<strong>Good</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Can’t</strong> <strong>Wait</strong>.<br />

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited<br />

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT ON CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />

To the members of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited<br />

Report on the Consolidated Financial Statements<br />

We have audited the accompanying consolidated financial statements of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited (“DRL” or “the Holding Company”) and its<br />

subsidiaries, its associates and joint controlled entities (collectively referred to as “the Company” or “the Group”), comprising of the consolidated balance<br />

sheet as at 31 March 2015, the consolidated statement of profit and loss, the consolidated cash flow statement for the year then ended, and a summary of<br />

significant accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as “the consolidated financial statements”).<br />

Management’s Responsibility for the Consolidated Financial Statements<br />

The Holding Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of these consolidated financial statements that give a true and fair view of<br />

the consolidated financial position, consolidated financial performance and consolidated cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting<br />

principles generally accepted in India, including the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Companies Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred<br />

to as “the Act”) read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. The Board of Directors of the Company are responsible for maintenance of<br />

adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting<br />

frauds and other irregularities; the selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable<br />

and prudent; and the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the<br />

accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the consolidated financial statements that give<br />

a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, which have been used for the purpose of preparation of the<br />

consolidated financial statements by the Directors of the Holding Company, as aforesaid.<br />

Auditors’ Responsibility<br />

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. While conducting the audit, we have taken into<br />

account the provisions of the Act, the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the<br />

provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder.<br />

We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Those standards require that we comply<br />

with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free<br />

from material misstatement.<br />

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and the disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. The<br />

procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial<br />

statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Holding<br />

Company’s preparation of the consolidated financial statements that give a true and fair view in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in<br />

the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on whether the Holding Company has in place an adequate internal financial controls<br />

system over financial reporting and the operating effectiveness of such controls. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting<br />

policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Holding Company’s Board of Directors, as well as evaluating the overall<br />

presentation of the consolidated financial statements.<br />

We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us and the audit evidence obtained by the other auditors in terms of their reports referred to in Other<br />

Matters paragraph below, is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the consolidated financial statements.<br />

Opinion<br />

In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid consolidated financial statements give the<br />

information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted<br />

in India, of the consolidated state of affairs of the Company, as at 31 March 2015, and their consolidated profit and their consolidated cash flows for the<br />

year ended on that date.<br />

Other matters<br />

We did not audit the financial statements of one subsidiary, whose financial statements reflect total assets of ` 6,201 million as at 31 March 2015, total<br />

revenues of ` 14,121 million and net cash outflows amounting to ` 106 million for the year ended on that date, as considered in the consolidated financial<br />

statements. These financial statements have been audited by other auditor whose report have been furnished to us and our opinion on the consolidated<br />

financial statements in so far as it relates to the amounts and disclosures included in respect of the subsidiary, is based solely on the report of such other<br />

auditor.<br />

Our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, and our report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements below, is not modified in respect of<br />

the above matter with respect to our reliance on the work done and the reports of the other auditor.<br />

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