New Delhi, March 24 -- Registrars of Companies (RoCs) across the country have stepped up their compliance enforcement drive, with the largest number of penalty orders in the last five years getting issued in fiscal year 2025 (FY25), according to official data available from the ministry of corporate affairs.

Most of the over 1,160 adjudication orders issued by RoCs in FY25 are on breaches of fundamental company law requirements such as maintaining a registered office, reporting any change in registered office to the authorities, filing financial statements and annual reports on time, appointment of key managerial persons, filing of board decisions with the RoCs as well as issues like reporting significant beneficial ownership-a new area ...