Ajanta Pharma promoter releases pledged shares due to market value increase

Aayush Agrawal, a promoter of Ajanta Pharma, has disclosed the release of a pledge on 420,255 shares. This action, reported on December 9, 2025, is attributed to the upward movement in the market price of the company's shares.

The disclosure, made under SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011, highlights multiple pledge releases from December 3 to December 8, 2025. These included shares held with HSBC InvestDirect Financial Services (India) Ltd, Standard Chartered Capital Ltd, Deutsche Bank A.G, Jio Finance Ltd, Julius Baer Capital (India) Pvt Ltd, and Aditya Birla Money Ltd.

Prior to these releases, Aayush M Agrawal, as a trustee for the Aayush Agrawal Trust, had 6,750,002 shares (5.40% of total share capital) encumbered. Following the series of releases, the total number of encumbered shares for this entity has decreased.