IEPF-5 EVR (Nodal Officer's e-verification report)
The company-side verification report its Nodal Officer sends the IEPF Authority on a claimant's IEPF-5 claim.
Receipt of the claim
Counted from the company's receipt of a claimant's IEPF-5 claim
- MCA
- MCA event filings
- IEPF-5 EVR
- 2026-09-01
The e-verification report goes to the Authority within 30 days of the company receiving the claim, under rule 7(3). Past that the company can still file on an additional fee of ₹50 a day up to ₹2,500, and if the Authority has nothing sixty days after the IEPF-5 was filed it may reject the claim after giving the claimant and the company fifteen days to respond. In MCA21 V3 the EVR is a link form to IEPF-5 rather than an independent filing.
Deadlines counted from an event
Within 30 days of the date the company receives the claim, send an online verification report to the Authority with scanned copies of the documents the claimant submitted, certified by the Nodal Officer, under rule 7(3) of the IEPF (AATR) Rules.
The rule
Within 30 days of the date the company receives the claim, send an online verification report to the Authority with scanned copies of the documents the claimant submitted, certified by the Nodal Officer, under rule 7(3) of the IEPF (AATR) Rules.
Who must comply
- Every company against which a claimant files Form IEPF-5 to claim shares or amounts transferred to the Fund
- The company's Nodal Officer, who must certify the documents and whose MCA business-user profile must carry that role before he can access the form
Statutory basis
Before you file
- Nominate a Nodal Officer who is a director, the CFO or the company secretary, and register or upgrade his MCA business-user profile to that role.
- Receive the physical documents the claimant sends to the registered office: the original share certificate, bond, deposit or debenture certificate, the indemnity bond and the advance receipt.
- Verify the claimant's entitlement against the company's records and the IEPF-4 statement filed for those shares.
- Cancel and certify both sides of the original certificate.
- Record the date the claim was received. This date starts the 30-day window.
How to file
- Log in to the MCA21 V3 portal as the Nodal Officer or Deputy Nodal Officer.
- Open the claimant's IEPF-5 and start the linked e-verification report.
- Enter the outcome of the verification of the claimant's entitlement.
- Attach scanned copies of every original document the claimant submitted, certified by the Nodal Officer.
- Attach the scanned copy of both sides of the cancelled and certified original certificate.
- Sign the report with the Nodal Officer's digital signature.
- Submit the report within 30 days of receiving the claim.
- Keep the original documents available for production.
If you miss it
Rule 7(3) charges an additional fee of ₹50 for every day of delay, capped at ₹2,500, for a report filed after the thirty days. The last proviso to the same sub-rule adds that the company and its Nodal Officer are punishable under the Act for failing to submit the verification report, and where no Nodal Officer was appointed the proviso to rule 7(2A) deems every director to be one.
- Where the Authority has no report sixty days after the IEPF-5 was filed, it may reject the claim after asking the claimant and the company to respond within fifteen days, so the delay costs the claimant his claim
- Rule 7(3) makes the company solely responsible for collecting and holding the claimant's original certificates, and liable for any misuse of them
Recent changes affecting this
Common questions
Whose filing is the EVR?
The company's. Form IEPF-5 itself is the claimant's application; the e-verification report on it is the company's, filed by its Nodal Officer.
Is the EVR a separate form?
Not any more. In MCA21 V3 it is a link form filed against the claimant's IEPF-5, and the Nodal Officer or Deputy Nodal Officer has to hold that role on his MCA business-user profile to reach it.
What happens if the report is late?
An additional fee of ₹50 a day up to ₹2,500 applies. If the Authority still has nothing sixty days after the claim was filed, it may reject the IEPF-5 after giving the claimant and the company fifteen days to respond.