India’s SEBI expands forensic auditor panel with 18 new companies

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the country's marketplace regulator, has expanded its sheet of forensic auditors by adding 18 much companies.

The database present includes Ernst & Young, KPMG Assurance and Consulting Services, Zx Grant Thornton Bharat and Nangia & Co, among others, the Business Standard reported, citing the PTI.

According to the report, the companies volition behaviour forensic audits of the fiscal statements of listed companies.

The enlargement follows a enactment workout launched done a nationalist procurement announcement issued by SEBI successful November 2025.

The caller practices person been added to the existing roster of forensic auditors, which was archetypal released successful April 2025.

The empanelment of these companies volition beryllium valid for 3 years from the day of work of the updated list.

Nangia & Co Forensic Advisory elder spouse Srinivasa Rao explained that the enactment reflects the company's expertise successful forensic investigations and its committedness to supporting transparency successful India's superior markets.

Rao said: "We are immensely arrogant to beryllium empanelled by SEBI, a testament to our team's heavy expertise and unwavering dedication to forensic excellence.

"This empanelment reinforces our presumption arsenic a trusted spouse successful safeguarding capitalist interests and promoting transparency wrong the fiscal ecosystem."

The different recently empanelled entities are J C Kabra & Associates, J Mandal & Co, J Singh & Associates and Jain Jagawat Kamdar and Company.

The database besides includes ASA & Associates; CLA Indus Value Consulting; Pipara & Co; Ravi Rajan and Co; R Kabra & Co; R S Patel and Co; Sarath and Associates; SKVM and Company; S S Periwal and Co; and V Singhi & Associates.

SEBI's forensic audit sheet comprises practices authorised by the regulator to undertake forensic audits of listed companies wherever determination are concerns astir imaginable fiscal irregularities.

These exercises are intended to enactment marketplace integrity, heighten firm transparency and support the interests of investors.

In March this year, SEBI expanded the scope of professionals eligible to behaviour yearly audits of probe analysts and concern advisers.

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