Dear Fellow members,
Here is an exception for following 31, March ending as financila year
Provided that on an application made by a company or body corporate, which is
a holding company or a subsidiary of a company incorporated outside India and is
required to follow a different financial year for consolidation of its accounts outside
India, the Tribunal may, if it is satisfied, allow any period as its financial year, whether
or not that period is a year.
Which means if foreign holding company following the calender year as financial year and indian company accounts are going to consolidate into holding company then you can make an application to CLB to follow different financial year.
Regards.