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Sonata Software Ltd. — Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements 2019
Aug 9, 2019
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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements
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9 th August, 2019
National Stock Exchange of India Limited Exchange Plaza, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Kind Attn: Manager, Listing Department Email Id: [email protected] Stock Code - SONATSOFTW
BSE Limited P.J. Towers, Dalal Street Mumbai Kind Attn: Manager, Listing Department Email Id: [email protected] Stock Code - 532221
Dear Sir/Madam,
Sub: Submission of the voting results of the 24th Annual General Meeting (AGM) alongwith Scrutiniser's report
With reference to the captioned subject, we hereby enclose the voting results of 24th Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company as required under Regulation 44 (3) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. Please note that all the resolutions in the Notice dated May 30, 2019 of the 24th Annual General Meeting have been passed by the shareholders with requisite majority.
Further, pursuant to Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rules and amendments made thereto, enclosed is the consolidated report of the Scrutiniser on remote e-voting and through ballot paper at the AGM.
The voting results along with Scrutiniser's report will be uploaded on the Company's website www.sonata-software.com and on the website of Karvy Computershare Private Limited at www.karvy.com
Please take the same on record.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully For Sonata Software Limited Mangal Kulkarni MANGAL KRISHNARAO KULKARNI Digitally signed by MANGAL KRISHNARAO KULKARNI Date: 2019.08.09 14:48:38 +05'30'
Company Secretary and Compliance Officer
Encl: as above
| SONATA SOFTWARE LTD | |
|---|---|
| Date of the AGM/EGM | 07-08-2019 |
| Total number of shareholders on record date | 42992 |
| No. of shareholders present in the meeting either in person or through proxy: | |
| Promoters and Promoter Group: | |
| Public: | |
| No. of Shareholders attended the meeting through Video Conferencing | |
| Promoters and Promoter Group: | Not Applicable |
| Public: | Not Applicable |
| Resolution No. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution required: (Ordinary/ Special) | ORDINARY - Adoption of Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year 2018-19 Including the consolidated Financial Statements. | |||||||
| Whether promoter/ promoter group are | ||||||||
| interested in the agenda/resolution? | No | |||||||
| Category | Mode of Voting | No. of sharesheld (1) | No. of votespolled (2) | % of Votes Polledon outstandingshares (3)=[(2)/(1)]* 100 | No. of Votes - in favour (4) | No. of Votes-against (5) | % of Votes infavour on votespolled$(6)=[(4)/(2)]*100$ | % of Votes againston votes polled$(7)=[(5)/(2)]*100$ |
| E-Voting | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Promoter and Promoter Group | Poll | 2,96,23,450 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Total | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100,0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| E-Voting | 1,97,13,482 | 78.9940 | 1,97,13,482 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Public-Institutions | Poll | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | ||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 2,49,55,681 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | ||||
| Total | 1,97,13,482 | 78.994 | 1,97,13,482 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| E-Voting | 25,48,533 | 5.0386 | 25,43,531 | 99.9999 | 0.0000 | |||
| Public- Non Institutions | Poll | 2,40,237 | 0.4750 | 2,40,237 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | ||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 5,05,80,175 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | ||||
| Total | 27,88,770 | 5.5136 | 27,83,768 | 99,9999 | 0.0001 | |||
| Total | 10,51,59,306 | 5,21,25,702 | 49.5683 | 5,21,25,700 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 |
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| Resolution No. | 2 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution required: (Ordinary/ Special) | ||||||||||||
| ORDINARY - Confirmation of the payment of Interim Dividend of ₹4.75 per equity share i.e. 475 already paid and declare Final Dividend of ₹8.00- per equityshare i.e. 800 for the Financial Year 2018-19. | ||||||||||||
| Whether promoter/ promoter group are | ||||||||||||
| interested in the agenda/resolution? | No | |||||||||||
| Category | Mode of Voting | No. of sharesheld $(1)$ | No. of votespolled (2) | % of Votes Polledon outstandingshares(3)=[(2)/(1)]* 100 | No. of Votes - in favour (4) | No. of Votes-against (5) | % of Votes infavour on votespolled(6)=[(4)/(2)]*100 | % of Votes againston votes polled(7)=[(5)/(2)]*100 | ||||
| E-Voting | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100,0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| Promoter and Promoter Group | Poll | 2,96,23,450 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||||
| Total | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| E-Voting | 1,97,70,699 | 79.2232 | 1,97,70,699 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| Public- Institutions | Poll | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | ||||||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 2,49,55,681 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | ||||||||
| Total | 1,97,70,699 | 79.2232 | 1,97,70,699 | 100,0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| E-Voting | 25,48,543 | 5.0386 | 25,43,047 | 496 | 99.9805 | 0.0194 | ||||||
| Public- Non Institutions | Poll | 5,05,80,175 | 2,40,237 | 0.4750 | 2,40,237 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||||
| Total | 27,88,780 | 5.5136 | 27,83,284 | 496 | 99.9822 | 0.0178 | ||||||
| Total | 10,51,59,306 | 5,21,82,929 | 49.6227 | 5,21,82,433 | 496 | 99.9990 | 0.0010 |
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| Resolution No. | 3 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution required: (Ordinary/ Special) | appointment. | ORDINARY - Appointment of a Director in place of Mr. Viren Raneja DIN 00037592, who retires by rotation and being eligible, offers himself for re- | ||||||
| Whether promoter/ promoter group are | ||||||||
| interested in the agenda/resolution? | No | |||||||
| Category | Mode of Voting | No. of shares held (1) | No. of votespolled (2) | % of Votes Polledon putstandingshares(3)=[(2)/(1)]* 100 | No. of Votes - in favour (4) | No. of Votes-against (5) | 1% of Votes infavour on votespolled$(6)=[(4)/(2)]*100$ | % of Votes againston votes polled$(7)=[(5)/(2)]*100$ |
| E-Voting | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Promoter and Promoter Group | Poll | 2,96,23,450 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Total | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| E-Voting | 1,97,70,699 | 79.2232 | 1,71,65,908 | 26,03,791 | 86.8300 | 13.1699 | ||
| Public- Institutions | lPoll | 2,49,55,681 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Total | 1,97,70,699 | 79.2232 | 1,71,65,908 | 26,03,791 | 86,8301 | 13.1699 | ||
| E-Voting | 25,48,543 | 5.0386 | 25,47,942 | 601 | 99.9764 | 0.0235 | ||
| Public- Non Institutions | Poll | 5,05,80,175 | 2,40,237 | 0.4750 | 2,40,237 | 100,0000 | 0.0000 | |
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Total | 27,88,780 | 5.5136 | 27,83,179 | 601 | 99,9784 | 0.0216 | ||
| Total | 10,51,59,306 | 5,21,82,929 | 49.6227 | 4,95,73,537 | 26,04,392 | 95.0091 | 4.9909 |
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| Resolution No. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution required: (Ordinary/ Special) | SPECIAL - Special Resolution for appointment of Mr. Pradip P Shah as an Independent Director | |||||||
| Whether promoter/ promoter group areinterested in the agenda/resolution? | No | |||||||
| Category | Mode of Voting | No. of sharesheld (1) | No. of votespolled (2) | % of Votes Polledon outstandingshares(3)=[(2)/(1)]* 100 | No. of Votes - infavour (4) | No. of Votes-against (5) | % of Votes infavour on votespolled$(6)=[(4)/(2)]*100$ | % of Votes againston votes polled$(7)=[(5)/(2)]*100$ |
| E-Voting | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Promoter and Promoter Group | Poll | 2,96,23,450 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Total | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| E-Voting | 1,95,45,001 | 78.3188 | 1,12,47,511 | 82,97,490 | 57.5467 | 42.4532 | ||
| Public- Institutions | Poll | 2,49,55,681 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Total | 1,95,45,001 | 78.3188 | 1,12,47,511 | 82,97,490 | 57.5467 | 42.4533 | ||
| E-Voting | 25,48,524 | 5.0386 | 25,43,512 | 12 | 99.9995 | 0.0004 | ||
| Public- Non Institutions | Poll | 2,40,237 | 0.4750 | 2,40,237 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | ||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 5,05,80,175 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | ||||
| Total | 27,88,761 | 5.5136 | 27,83,749 | 12 | 99.9996 | 0.0004 | ||
| Total | 10,51,59,306 | 5,19,57,212 | 49.4081 | 4,36,59,710 | 82,97,502 | 84.0301 | 15.9699 |
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| Resolution No. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution required: (Ordinary/ Special) | SPECIAL - Special Resolution for appointment of Ms. Radhika Rajan as an independent Director | |||||||||||
| Whether promoter/ promoter group areinterested in the agenda/resolution? | No | |||||||||||
| Category | Mode of Voting | No. of sharesheld (1) | No. of votespolled (2) | % of Votes Polledon outstandingshares (3)=[(2)/(1)]* 100 | No. of Votes - infavour (4) | No. of Votes -against (5) | % of Votes infavour on votes polled(6)=[(4)/(2)]*100 | % of Votes againston votes polled(7)=[(5)/(2)]*100 | ||||
| E-Voting | 2,96,23,450 | 100.0000 | 2,96,25,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| Promoter and Promoter Group | Poll | 2,96,23,450 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||||
| Total | 2,96,23,450 | 100,0000 | 2,96,25,450 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| E-Voting | 1,97,70,699 | 79.2232 | 1,95,65,697 | 2,05,002 | 98.9631 | 1.0368 | ||||||
| Public- Institutions | l Poll | 2,49,55,681 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||||
| Total | 1,97,70,699 | 79.2232 | 1,95,65,697 | 2,05,002 | 98.9631 | 1.0369 | ||||||
| E-Voting | 25,48,534 | 5.0386 | 25,48,527 | 99.9997 | 0.0002 | |||||||
| Public- Non Institutions | Poll | 5,05,80,175 | 2,40,237 | 0.4750 | 2,40,237 | 100.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Postal Ballot (ifapplicable) | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | |||||||||
| Total | 27,88,771 | 5.5136 | 27,88,764 | 99.9997 | 0.0003 | |||||||
| Total | 10,51,59,306 | 5,21,82,920 | 49.6227 | 5,19,77,911 | 2,05,009 | 99.6071 | 0.3929 |
BANGALORE Stifthelm
PARAMESHWAR G. BHAT
B.Com., LLB, ML, MBA, FCS Company Secretary
496/4, II Floor, 10th Cross Near Bashyam Circle, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore - 560 080 Tel: +91 80 23610847 Telefax: +91 80 41231106 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected]
SCRUTINIZER'S REPORT
[Pursuant to Sections 108 & 109 of the Companies Acl, 2013 and the Companies (Management & Administration) Rules; 2014]
To Mr. Pradip P. Shah Chairman Sonata Software Limited Mumbai
Dear Sir.
I, Parameshwar G. Bhat, Company Secretary in Whole-Time Practice (FCS No. 8860. CP No. 11004), having office at #496/4, 2nd Floor, 10th Cross, Near Bashyam Circle. Sadashivanagar, Bangalore = 560 080, duly appointed as Scrutinizer by Sonata Software Limited for the purpose of scrutinizing the voting through remote e-voting and through Ballot Papers at the 24th Annual General Meeting pursuant to Sections 108 and 109 of the Companies Act, 2013, read with Rule 20 and 21 of the Companies '(Management & Administration) Rules, 2014 as amended from time to time and the provisions of Regulation 44 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, hereby furnish my Report to you.
The Management of the Company is responsible to ensure compliance of the requirements of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rules relating to voting through e-voting and Ballot Papers at the Annual General Meeting venue for the resolutions proposed in the notice of 24th Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company held on 7th August, 2019. My responsibility as a Scrutinizer is to ensure that the voting process is conducted in a fair and transparent manner and is restricted to make a Scrutinizer's Report for the votes casts in "favour" or "against" on the resolutions proposed in the Notice convening the 24th Annual General Meeting of the Company, based on the Report provided by Karvy Fintech Private Limited (Formerly Karvy Computer Share Private Limited), the agency engaged by the Company to provide e-voting facility for voting through electronic means.

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In terms of the aforesaid Notice and as per the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) read with Rule 20 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014, as amended, the e-voting was kept open for three days from 4th August, 2019 (9.00 A.M. IST) till 6th August, 2019 (5.00 P.M. IST) and Members were requested to cast their votes electronically conveying their assent or dissent in respect of the resolutions on the e-voting platform.
The Members holding Equity Shares as on the "cut-off date" i.e. 31st July, 2019 were entitled to vote on the resolutions proposed in the Notice calling the 24th Annual General Meeting.
The Ballot register was prepared to record Equity Shareholders' Assent or Dissent, received mentioning the particulars of name, address, folio number or client ID of the Shareholders, number of shares held by them, nominal value of such shares, whether the shares have differential voting rights, if any, details of Ballot Papers which are invalid.
The Ballot Papers received were scrutinized and reconciled with the records maintained by the Registrar and Share Transfer Agent (RTA).
At the end of the voting period on 6th August, 2019 (5.00 P.M. IST), the voting portal of the service provider was blocked forthwith.
The votes casts were unblocked on 7th August, 2019 in the presence of Mr. Anoop MH and Ms. Sahana Bhat who acted as witnesses as prescribed under sub-rule 3(xii) of Rule 20 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014, as amended.
Thereafter, the details containing inter alia, the list of the Members, who voted "for" or "against" on each of the resolutions that were put to vote, were derived from the Ballot Papers as received and the report generated from the e-voting website of Karvy Fintech Private Limited i.e. www.evoting.karvy.com and based on such reports,
- a. 169 (Folio wise) members have cast their votes through remote e-voting.
- b. 17 (Folios wise) members have cast their votes through Ballot Papers at the Annual General Meeting.
The brief analysis of the results of the remote e-voting and Ballot Papers are as under:

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ORDINARY BUSINESS:
Item No.1: Adoption of Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year 2018-19 (Including the consolidated Financial Statements):
Ordinary Resolution:
| Particulars | No. of votes contained in | Percenta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote E-voting | Ballot Papers | Total | ge onValidvotes | ||||
| No ofmembers voted | No. ofVotes cast(shares) | No ofmembersvoted | No. ofVotescast(shares) | No ofmembers voted | No. of Votescast(shares) | ||
| Assent | 165 | 51885463 | 16 | 240237 | 181 | 52125700 | 99.99 |
| Dissent | $\overline{2}$ | 2 | $\Omega$ | $\Omega$ | 2 | $\overline{2}$ | 0.01 |
| Total | 167 | 51885465 | 16 | 240237 | 183 | 52125702 | 100.00 |
| Abstained/Invalid* | $\overline{2}$ | `57227 | 1 | 3 | 57228 | NA |
Item No. 2: Confirmation of the payment of Interim Dividend of Rs. 4.75 per equity share (i.e. 475%) already paid and declare Final Dividend of Rs. 8 per equity share (i.e.800%) for the Financial Year 2018-19:
Ordinary Resolution:
| Particulars | No. of votes contained in | Percentage on Valid | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote E-voting | Ballot Papers | Totalvotes | ||||||
| No. ofmembers voted | No. ofVotes cast(shares) | No. ofmembersvoted | No. ofVotescast(shares) | No. ofmembers voted | No. ofVotes cast(shares) | |||
| Assent | 166 | 51942196 | 16 | 240237 | 182 | 52182433 | 99.99 | |
| Dissent | 3 | .496 | $\mathbf 0$ | U | 3 | 496 | 0.01 | |
| Total | 169 | 51942692 | 16 | 240237 | 185 | 52182929 | 100.00 | |
| Abstained/Invalid | $\mathbf{O}$ | $\Omega$ | NA |
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Item No. 3: Appointment of a Director in place of Mr. Viren Raheja (DIN: 00037592), who retires by rotation and being eligible, offers himself for re- appointment:
Ordinary Resolution:
| Particulars | No. of votes contained in | Percentag | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote E-voting | Ballot Papers | Total | e on Validvotes | ||||
| No. ofmembers voted | No. ofVotes cast(shares) | No. ofmembersvoted | No. ofVotescast(shares) | No. ofs voted | No. ofmember Votes cast(shares) | ||
| Assent | 138 | 49338300 | 16 | 240237 | 154 | 49578537 | 95.01 |
| Dissent | 31 | 2604392 | 0 | $\Omega$ | 31 | 2604392 | 4.99 |
| Total | 169 | 51942692 | 16 | 240237 | 185 | 52182929 | 100.00 |
| Abstained/Invalid* | 0 | 0 | NA |
SPECIAL BUSINESS:
Item No. 4: Re-appointment of Mr. Pradip P Shah (DIN: 00066242) as an Independent Director of the Company for five consecutive years commencingfrom 11th August, 2019 up to 10th August, 2024, not liable to retire by rotation:
Special Resolution:
| Particulars | No. of votes contained in | Percenta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $\left( 0 \right)$ | Remote E-voting | Ballot Papers | Total | ge onValidvotes | |||
| No. of | No. of | No. of | No. of | No. of No. of Votes | |||
| memb | Votes cast | members | Votes | member | · cast | ||
| ers | (shares) | voted | cast | s voted | (shares) | ||
| voted | (shares) | ||||||
| Assent | 92 | 43419473 | 16 | 240237 | 108 | 43659710 | 84.03 |
| Dissent | 75 | 8297502 | $\Omega$ | 0 | 75 | 8297502 | 15.97 |
| Total | 167 | 51716975 | 16 | 240237 | 183 | 51957212 | 100.00 |
| Abstained/Invalid* | $\overline{2}$ | 225717 | 3 | 225718 | NA |

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Item No. 5: Re-appointment of Ms. Radhika Rajan (DIN: 00499485) as an Independent Director of the Company for five consecutive years commencing from 13th August, 2019 upto 12th August, 2024, not liable to retire by rotation: Special Resolution:
| No. of votes contained in | Percenta | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Particulars | Remote E-voting | Ballot Papers | Total | ge onValidvotes | |||
| No. ofmembersvoted | No. ofVotes cast(shares) | No. ofmembersvoted | No. ofVotescast.(shares) | membersvoted | No. of No. of Votescast(shares) | ||
| Assent | 161 | 51737674 | 16 | 240237 | 177 | 51977911 | 99.61 |
| Dissent | 7 | 205009 | 0 | 0 | 205009 | 0.39 | |
| Total | 168 | 51942683 | 16 | 240237 | 184 | 52182920 | 100.00 |
| Abstained/Invalid | 1 | 9 | 1 | $\overline{2}$ | 10 | NA |
* One share holder exercised his vote partially and abstained from voting for his partial holding. However as the same is not prohibited under the Act, the votes cast by the said shareholder has been taken in to account accordingly.
Based on the foregoing, the resolution numbers from 01 to 05 may be deemed to have been passed by requisite majority.
All the relevant records relating to e-voting and Polling Papers are under my safe custody and will be handed over to the Company Secretary of the Company for preserving safely.

Thanking You Yours Sincerely
Parameshwar G.Bhat
Practising Company Secretary FCS No.: 8860 C. P. No.: 11004
- Sahana Bhat
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Date: 08.08.2019 Place: Bengaluru
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