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- Aravali Securities & Finance Limited (ARAVALIS.BO), a non-banking financial company founded in 1980 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, provides financial and other advisory services except insurance and pension funding; deals in shares and securities including short-term and long-term investments and trading; and engages in leasing of earth-moving equipment, general machinery, vehicles, and computers, bill discounting, and hire-purchase schemes for general machinery and vehicles. The company, promoted by the Poddar family with Ranjan Kumar Poddar as CEO, previously operated as a deposit-taking NBFC but ceased to be a Non-Banking Financial Institution during fiscal 2018-19 and shifted its registered office from New Delhi to Gurgaon in 2009. It serves clientele including reputed firms such as JK Synthetics, Jagatjit Industries, Orient Papers, and Grindlays Bank, with operations focused on the Indian market, and maintains Pratap Asbestos as a subsidiary; recent developments include achieving new profitability, building growth momentum, and experiencing unprecedented buying interest with upper circuit locks in November 2025 amid micro-cap volatility in the trading and distributors sector.