Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer (our Principal Executive Officer, Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer), evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures and
internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), as of June 30, 2026.
To ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Exchange Act is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, including to ensure that information
required to be disclosed by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management,
including Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, as our Principal Executive Officer, and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer, as appropriate to
allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Based on the evaluation performed as of June 30, 2026, as a result of the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting
that are previously disclosed under “Part II - Item 9A - Controls and Procedures” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2025, Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, as our Principal Executive, Financial and Accounting Officer determined that our
disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of such date in that:
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We failed to design adequate controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that U.S. GAAP was being properly applied to the matters resulting into the restatement of our quarterly financial statements, including recognition of revenue in case of deferred payment sales, recognition of right of use of certain assets and lease liabilities and functional and other classifications, also leading to certain accounting errors as described in details in the restatement notes as included in the respective amended quarterly financial statements.
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We do not have written documentation of our internal control policies and procedures. Written documentation of key internal controls over financial reporting is a requirement of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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We do not have sufficient segregation of duties within accounting functions, which is a basic internal control. Due to our size and nature, segregation of all conflicting duties may not always be possible and may not be economically feasible. However, to the extent possible, the initiation of transactions, the custody of assets and the recording of transactions should be performed by separate individuals.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination
of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement
of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Remediation Plan
We have been addressing and remediating these material weaknesses with
the support and assistance of the accounting and financial staff employed by our Indian operating subsidiary. We have enhanced the review
process for significant transactions to ensure proper accounting treatment under applicable guidelines and have engaged the external experts
to provide guidance to our staff in the areas of financial reporting, internal controls, and enterprise risk management and assist it
in the application of accounting principles to complex transactions. This external expert group is also helping us in strengthening its
existing internal controls, policies and Standard Operating Procedures (“ SOPs ”) in all the major functional areas.
In addition, we have also engaged services of
external experts in the field of designing, development and implementation of a comprehensive cloud-based ERP system. The ERP implementation
process involves a detailed process study of each of the business functions and engagement with their respective process owners, identifying
their linkages with other business functions and designing report formats, data sourcing and customizing the ERP system and training of
the respective teams to meet the business data flow and reporting requirements of each business function. Post completion of roll out
of all the functional modules under this new cloud-based ERP system which is designed to integrate all business functions within the accounting
and financial department would help us in further addressing the abovementioned weaknesses.
Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, our Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer (our Principal Executive, Financial and Accounting
Officer) does not expect that our disclosure controls or internal controls will prevent all errors and all fraud. Although our disclosure
controls and procedures were designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives, a control system, no matter how well
conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute assurance that the objectives of the system are met. Further, the design
of any control system is subject to resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because
of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and
instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the fact that judgments in decision-making
can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple errors or mistakes. There can be no assurance that any design will succeed
in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
Changes in Internal Controls Over Financial
Reporting
Except for the remediation efforts described above,
there were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter covered by this Quarterly
Report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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