---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-070632"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZCAR"
cik: "0001854275"
company_name: "Zoomcar Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:55:48.473650+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zoomcar dismisses Grant Thornton Bharat, engages Bansal & Co as auditor; material weaknesses persist

## Summary
- Dismissed Grant Thornton Bharat LLP effective July 29, 2025; no disagreements with the firm.
- Engaged Bansal & Co LLP as new independent registered public accounting firm for FY 2026.
- Reportable events: multiple material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting, including inadequate ITGCs and lack of technical expertise.
- Material weaknesses have not been remediated as of the date of this filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-070632
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZCAR
- cik: 0001854275
- company_name: Zoomcar Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000121390025070632/0001213900-25-070632-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000121390025070632/ea0251312-8k_zoomcar.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-070632
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-070632.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. dismissed Grant Thornton Bharat LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
  - Successor: Bansal & Co LLP
  source text: On July 29, 2025, Zoomcar Holdings Inc. (the "Company") notified Grant Thornton Bharat LLP ("GT Bharat") that it was dismissed as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000121390025070632/0001213900-25-070632-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. engaged Bansal & Co LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Bansal & Co LLP
  source text: the Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors approved the engagement of Bansal & Co LLP ("Bansal") as the Company's new independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854275/000121390025070632/0001213900-25-070632-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.