How to Convert Old Sterlite Technologies Share Certificates to Demat and Recover Them from IEPF

To convert an old Sterlite Technologies share certificate to demat, open a demat account in exactly the name printed on it, update your KYC with the company’s registrar, KFin Technologies in Hyderabad, and hand the certificate in with a Demat Request Form through the depository participant (DP) that runs your demat account. If the shares have already moved to the IEPF, you claim them back with Form IEPF-5.

The number on the paper is not the number you own, and it is no longer just one company. Sterlite Technologies began in 2000 as Sterlite Optical Technologies, with ₹5 shares. In 2010 each ₹5 share became five ₹2 shares, through a split and a bonus. Since then the company has split off two businesses: Sterlite Power in 2016 and STL Networks in 2025. One old ₹5 share is now 5 Sterlite Technologies shares and 5 STL Networks shares, about ₹4,543 at the 16 October 2026 prices, plus one Sterlite Power share, which is not listed on any exchange.

If the certificate says Sterlite Industries, the family holds even more. Sterlite Technologies was carved out of Sterlite Industries in 2000, one new share for each Sterlite Industries share. So a Sterlite Industries certificate from before 2000 carries all the shares above, and a second holding on top: the Sterlite Industries shares themselves, which are now Vedanta. Check what your family holds with Find Your Shares →

Look again even if the family wrote these shares off. Sterlite Technologies’ share price has risen about ten times since January 2026, from about ₹86 to ₹865.90.

How many Sterlite Technologies shares is an old certificate today?

Look at the company name and the face value printed on the certificate. Together they tell you which changes came after it. A ₹5 certificate from before March 2010 has been through all of them, so each share on it is now 5 Sterlite Technologies + 5 STL Networks + 1 Sterlite Power.

The worth shown counts only the two listed companies. Sterlite Power shares are not traded on any exchange, so they have no market price to quote. The table assumes the folio still held the shares on the record dates in June 2016 and April 2025, which paper folios almost always did. If you have more than one certificate, see how to count them, so you do not count the same shares twice. The folio’s count at KFin Technologies is the final word.

What has happened to Sterlite Technologies shares since 2000? The full history

One demerger to create the company, one split with a bonus, and two demergers out of it. Here is everything that changed what an old certificate stands for, and what did not.

Several things on this list do not change your count. Over the years Sterlite Technologies has sold new shares to institutions, converted warrants and issued shares to employees under stock option schemes. Those shares went only to the people who paid for them or earned them. They gave nothing to ordinary shareholders and took nothing away.

What are old Sterlite Technologies shares worth today?

A Sterlite Optical Technologies certificate for 100 shares of ₹5 is worth about ₹4.54 lakh today: 500 Sterlite Technologies shares at ₹865.90 and 500 STL Networks shares at ₹42.73, the 16 October 2026 closing prices, plus 100 unlisted Sterlite Power shares. Prices move every day, and Sterlite Technologies’ price has moved sharply in 2026, so treat these as a guide.

Old Sterlite certificates are often for a few hundred shares, bought by families who held Sterlite Industries in the 1990s. Many of those families do not know that a second certificate, for Sterlite Optical Technologies, should have reached them in late 2000. If the dividends on a folio like these have gone uncashed for seven years in a row, the shares themselves move to the IEPF.

Where are the STL Networks shares if we still hold paper certificates?

In STL Networks’ demat suspense account, a demat account that holds shares the company could not deliver. STL Networks issued its shares in demat only. Sterlite Technologies asked paper shareholders to send their demat details to KFin Technologies before the record date, 24 April 2025. Where a folio sent nothing, its STL Networks shares went to that account instead.

• So a paper folio is now in two places. Take 100 old ₹5 shares. The register shows 500 Sterlite Technologies shares on paper, and another 500 STL Networks shares in the suspense account.
• To get them, open a demat account, dematerialise the Sterlite Technologies shares, and write to KFin Technologies with the folio number and your demat details, asking for the STL Networks shares to be credited from the suspense account. The company releases them once it has proof that they are yours.
• If the Sterlite Technologies shares had already moved to the IEPF before April 2025, the STL Networks shares for them would normally have gone to the IEPF too. Under the IEPF rules, benefits on shares in the IEPF are credited to the IEPF. STL Networks is a separate company, so those shares need their own claim.
• Shares already in demat got STL Networks shares automatically. There is nothing to do for them.

What about the Sterlite Power shares from 2016?

Every Sterlite Technologies shareholder on 16 June 2016 was entitled to 1 Sterlite Power Transmission share for every 5 Sterlite Technologies shares, and those shares have never been listed. Sterlite Power took over the power cables, conductors and transmission projects. The scheme said from the start that its shares would not be listed on any exchange.

• Shareholders could choose. Resident Indian shareholders could take the Sterlite Power equity shares, or preference shares that were to be redeemed for cash. Your folio received whichever option was recorded for it. The registrar’s records show which.
• The equity shares are still shares in a real company. Sterlite Power has since moved its transmission business into another company, changed its name to Sterlite Electric, and applied to list its shares. As of October 2026 that listing has not happened.
• They are claimed separately. Sterlite Power is a separate company with its own register of shareholders, so it needs its own request, and its own IEPF claim if its shares have moved there.
• There is no market price to quote. Unlisted shares change hands privately, if at all. We do not put a value on them on this page.

Our certificate says Sterlite Industries. What is it now?

It is two holdings: Sterlite Technologies, one share for each Sterlite Industries share, and Vedanta. In 2000 Sterlite Industries moved its telecom business into Sterlite Optical Technologies and gave its shareholders one ₹5 share of the new company for every ₹10 Sterlite Industries share. Everything on this page about ₹5 shares applies to those shares.

• The Sterlite Technologies side: each Sterlite Industries share held in October 2000 is now 5 Sterlite Technologies + 5 STL Networks + 1 Sterlite Power. The family may also have a separate Sterlite Optical Technologies certificate from late 2000. If so, that certificate is this side of the holding. Do not count it twice.
• The Vedanta side: Sterlite Industries itself merged into Sesa Goa in August 2013, at 3 Sesa Goa shares for every 5 Sterlite Industries shares held then. Sesa Goa was renamed Sesa Sterlite, and in 2015 Vedanta Limited.
• Vedanta has changed shape again since. In 2026 it split off four businesses into new listed companies, Vedanta Aluminium Metal, Vedanta Power, Vedanta Oil and Gas, and Vedanta Iron and Steel. The share count on the Vedanta side also changed several times between 2000 and 2013, so the number on the certificate is not the number that was swapped.
• Trace both sides together. The Vedanta side is a separate company with its own registrar, its own IEPF transfers and its own claim. We work out both sides of a Sterlite Industries certificate in the same case. Start with Find Your Shares.

We found several Sterlite certificates. How do we count them?

Start from the oldest certificates the family has, and count each share on them once. Do not add on the newer certificates that came from them: they are already inside the multiple. Families who held Sterlite before 2010 often find three or four certificates for what is really one holding.

• One holding, many papers: a Sterlite Optical Technologies certificate for 100 shares of ₹5, and ₹2 certificates from March 2010 for 250 split shares and 250 bonus shares. That is still one holding: 500 Sterlite Technologies shares today, not more.
• Two separate purchases: 100 old ₹5 shares, plus 200 shares of ₹2 bought in 2014, are two holdings. The first counts ×5 and the second ×1, so together they are 700 Sterlite Technologies shares today, with as many STL Networks shares.
• A Sterlite Industries certificate and a Sterlite Optical Technologies certificate for the same number of shares, from the same family, are usually one holding seen from two sides. The Sterlite Optical certificate came out of the Sterlite Industries one in 2000.
• How to tell a bonus certificate: it is usually dated March 2010, when the bonus was allotted, and some say “bonus” on the face. A ₹2 certificate that replaced a ₹5 one after the split is not extra. The shareholders’ resolution of February 2010 provided for the old ₹5 certificates to be cancelled and replaced.
• Certificates with different folio numbers: each folio is a separate holding with its own KYC, dividends and IEPF transfers. Each one needs to be checked.

Is our certificate a Sterlite Technologies share? Names that are not

Certificates of Sterlite Optical Technologies Limited and Sterlite Technologies Limited are Sterlite Technologies shares. These look similar but are not, or are only partly:

• Sterlite Industries (India) Limited: the parent company until 2000. A certificate from before October 2000 carries Sterlite Technologies shares and a Vedanta holding. See Sterlite Industries certificates.
• Sterlite Power Transmission, now Sterlite Electric: the unlisted company split off in 2016. Its shares are separate from your Sterlite Technologies shares.
• STL Networks: the company split off in 2025, listed since September 2025. Its shares came on top of your Sterlite Technologies shares, not in place of them.
• Vedanta, Hindustan Zinc and BALCO: companies of the same Vedanta group, but none of them is Sterlite Technologies. Only a Sterlite Industries certificate leads to Vedanta.
• IndiGrid: an infrastructure trust that Sterlite Power sponsored. Its units were sold to investors, not handed to Sterlite Technologies shareholders.
• Companies spelled Sterling, with a g, such as Sterling Biotech, are unrelated.

How do you check and claim an unclaimed Sterlite Technologies dividend?

Check Sterlite Technologies’ IEPF list on its investor pages, then claim from KFin Technologies if the dividend is less than seven years old. Any dividend that is not cashed waits in an unpaid dividend account for seven years, then moves to the IEPF.

Step 1: find out what is unclaimed

• Sterlite Technologies’ website publishes the folios whose shares are due to move to the IEPF, with the dividends left unclaimed, and the company writes to the last known address on the folio.
• The IEPF Authority’s search at iepfa.gov.in shows dividends and shares that have already moved. How to search the IEPF step by step.
• Search under every spelling of the holder’s name, and the joint holders’ names too.

Step 2: claim a dividend that is less than seven years old

Write to KFin Technologies (Unit: STL) with the folio number, the dividends you did not receive, and an original cancelled cheque with the first holder’s name printed on it. Paper folios must also send Forms ISR-1 and ISR-2, which update their KYC and signature. For shares already in demat, send your client master list instead. If you have old letters from Karvy, that is the same registrar under its earlier name. Karvy is now KFin Technologies.

Complete the folio’s KYC first. A paper folio is paid its dividend only electronically, and only if its KYC (PAN, bank account, contact details and signature) is complete. Without it the dividend is simply held back, and seven years of held-back dividends sends the shares to the IEPF.

Step 3: a dividend more than seven years old

It has already gone to the IEPF, and the only way to get it back is Form IEPF-5. How to recover a dividend from the IEPF.

The bigger point: an unclaimed dividend is a warning about the shares. A folio of 100 old ₹5 shares is 500 Sterlite Technologies shares today, worth about ₹4.33 lakh on their own. If it misses its dividends for seven years in a row, those shares move to the IEPF too.

How do you convert old Sterlite Technologies share certificates to demat?

Open a demat account in exactly the name on the certificate, update the folio’s KYC with KFin Technologies, then hand the certificates in with a Demat Request Form through the DP that runs your demat account. If you only have ₹5 certificates, ask the registrar first where today’s ₹2 shares are.

1. Open a demat account in the same name, or the same names in the same order for a joint holding.
2. Update KYC on the folio with Form ISR-1 (PAN, bank, contact details), and Form ISR-2 if your signature has changed. How to fix a signature mismatch.
3. Write ‘Surrendered for Dematerialisation’ on each certificate, sign it as it was signed on the register, and hand it in with a Demat Request Form through the DP that runs your demat account. Put every certificate from the same folio on one form. The DP only passes the papers on; the registrar decides.
4. Ask about everything not in your hands. The ₹2 certificates sent out after the 2010 split, any bonus certificates that never arrived, and the STL Networks shares in the suspense account are all on the register. Write to the registrar with the folio number and ask for them to be credited to your demat account. Under SEBI’s rules, certificates returned undelivered are held in an unclaimed suspense account in the company’s name.
5. The registrar checks the signature, the folio and the distinctive numbers against the register, and the shares arrive in your demat account, usually within a few weeks if the papers are in order.

Since April 2019, paper shares cannot be sold or transferred until they are in demat. There is no deadline to demat shares already registered in your own name. But a folio worth about ₹4.54 lakh on old paper is one lost envelope away from a long fight. The full demat process for any company · The rules on physical shares in 2026.

How do you check if your Sterlite Technologies shares have gone to the IEPF?

If no dividend on the folio has been cashed for seven years in a row, the shares have very likely moved to the IEPF, or are about to. The latest batch covers folios with unclaimed dividends from 2018–19 onwards, and became due to move in August 2026.

• Sterlite Technologies’ website carries the list of shares due to move, as the rules require, and the company writes to each affected shareholder at the last known address.
• The IEPF Authority’s search at iepfa.gov.in covers shares that have already moved. Search for “Sterlite Technologies Limited” and the holder’s name. It is a search by name, not by folio number. How to find IEPF shares when you only have a folio number.
• Search for STL Networks and Sterlite Power too, and for Vedanta if the family’s certificate says Sterlite Industries. Each company moves its own shares.
• Read the count carefully. The IEPF shows today’s shares. One old ₹5 share appears as 5 Sterlite Technologies shares.

If you find nothing anywhere, the shares are probably still with the company in the holder’s name, or in its suspense accounts, waiting to be claimed. Before any transfer, the rules require the company to write to the shareholder at the last known address at least three months ahead and to publish a newspaper notice.

How do you recover Sterlite Technologies shares from the IEPF?

Get an entitlement letter from KFin Technologies, file Form IEPF-5 online on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs website, then send the signed papers to Sterlite Technologies’ nodal officer for verification. The company checks the claim and sends a verification report to the IEPF Authority, which credits the shares back to your demat account and refunds the dividends.

1. Open a demat account in the claimant’s name. For a joint folio, the same names in the same order.
2. Complete KYC with the registrar and ask for an entitlement letter. It confirms how many shares, and which years’ dividends, from your folio went to the IEPF. The IEPF Authority tells claimants to get it before filing, and the first question on the form asks for it.
3. File Form IEPF-5 on the MCA portal and note the SRN, your claim number. How to file IEPF-5 online.
4. Send the physical documents to the company’s nodal officer: the signed IEPF-5 form and acknowledgement, the original indemnity bond on stamp paper, a copy of your Aadhaar, the original certificates or other proof of entitlement, and a cancelled cheque.
5. Sterlite Technologies verifies and reports to the IEPF Authority. The rules give the company 30 days from receiving your claim to file its report, and the Authority 60 days to decide once the report is complete: about 90 days on paper. Real claims usually take much longer, because papers go back and forth. What to do when an IEPF claim is stuck.

Claim the whole folio, in every company, not the number on the paper. Claim only the 100 printed on an old ₹5 certificate and you leave 400 Sterlite Technologies shares in the queue. The entitlement letter is based on the company’s register, so it gives the full count after the split and the bonus. You can file only one IEPF claim for a company in a financial year, so the first one has to be complete. STL Networks, Sterlite Power and Vedanta each need their own claim.

What if the Sterlite Technologies share certificates are lost?

If the shares are still with the company, apply to KFin Technologies for duplicate shares with Form ISR-4. If they have gone to the IEPF, you claim them with IEPF-5 instead and do not need a duplicate. When paper shares move to the IEPF, the old certificates are cancelled automatically.

For duplicates, what you need depends on what the lost shares are worth today. SEBI simplified these rules in December 2025:

• Up to ₹10,000: a simple undertaking on plain paper.
• ₹10,000 to ₹10 lakh: one standard affidavit-cum-indemnity bond.
• Above ₹10 lakh: the affidavit-cum-indemnity bond, plus a police report (FIR, e-FIR or police complaint) that mentions the folio and certificate numbers, plus a notice of the loss in a widely read newspaper.

With Sterlite Technologies these limits move with a share price that has risen fast. At today’s price, ₹10,000 covers just 11 shares, and ₹10 lakh about 1,154. A ₹5 certificate for 231 shares or more is over the ₹10 lakh line, and so is a ₹2 certificate for 1,155 or more. A lost certificate for them needs the police report and the newspaper notice.

Open the demat account before you apply. Since 2 April 2026 the registrar credits duplicate shares straight into demat. There is no longer a “Letter of Confirmation” to take to your DP. SEBI expects about 30 days for a complete, correct application.

Don’t know the folio number? Old dividend warrants, bank passbooks showing Sterlite dividend credits, or the letters about the 2016 or 2025 demergers can give it. The full process is in our guide to reporting a lost share certificate.

What if the name or spelling on the certificate does not match?

Fix the name on the folio first, before you demat or file an IEPF claim, using Form ISR-1 and a document that proves both spellings belong to you. The registrar, the demat account and the IEPF claim must all show the same name. One mismatch and the papers come back.

• Initials on the certificate, full name on the PAN card: “R. K. Jain” against “Rajesh Kumar Jain”. Very common on 1990s folios.
• The father’s name in the middle: “Suresh Bhagwandas Patel” on the certificate and “Suresh Patel” on the PAN card.
• Two spellings of the same surname: “Agarwal” and “Agrawal”, or “Kulkarni” and “Kulkarny”, on different papers for one person.
• A surname added or dropped between the old certificate and today’s documents.
• A woman’s maiden name on the certificate and her married name on everything else.

The usual proof is a passport, a marriage certificate, a gazette notification, or a notarised affidavit that both names are the same person. Send it to KFin Technologies with Form ISR-1.

What if the Sterlite Technologies shareholder has died?

The shares pass to the nominee or legal heirs through transmission, handled by KFin Technologies, and they are always credited in demat. If the shares have also gone to the IEPF, transmission and the IEPF claim happen together, and the heir files the IEPF-5. If one joint holder has died, the survivors only need the name deleted with a copy of the death certificate.

SEBI’s new transmission rules have applied since 22 August 2026:

• Simplified documents for physical shares worth up to ₹10 lakh per listed company, doubled from ₹5 lakh.
• Quick processing for physical holdings up to ₹10,000 where the claimant is a parent, spouse, child or parent-in-law. With Sterlite Technologies that is just 11 of today’s shares.
• No blanket requirement for probate, and one combined affidavit-cum-NOC in place of separate papers. You still have to prove your entitlement if other heirs dispute it.
• 21 days for the registrar to process once all documents are in.

The ₹10 lakh limit is counted on today’s value of the whole folio, not on the number printed on the certificate. With Sterlite Technologies that is about 1,154 of today’s shares, or 230 old ₹5 shares. Above the limit you usually need a succession certificate or legal heir certificate, unless there is a nominee or the other heirs give no-objection. STL Networks, Sterlite Power and Vedanta each need their own transmission. Read more in our guides to transmission of shares and transmission without a succession certificate.

Bought Sterlite shares on paper but never got them transferred?

You can use SEBI’s special window, open until 4 February 2027, if the shares were bought before 1 April 2019 and you still have the original certificate. It is for people who bought shares from someone else, signed a transfer deed, and never became the registered holder.

• It covers transfers never lodged, and transfers lodged before but rejected or returned.
• It does not cover disputed cases, or shares already moved to the IEPF.
• The shares are credited in demat only, and they are locked in for one year from the date the transfer is registered.

Every split, bonus and demerger went to the seller, who was still the registered holder. So a ₹5 Sterlite certificate bought in 2005 and never transferred stands for 5 Sterlite Technologies shares per share today, but the 2010 bonus shares, the Sterlite Power shares and the STL Networks shares were all issued in the seller’s name. Ask the registrar what the folio shows before you lodge the deed. The full rules of the window.

Why not just hand the certificates to a local lawyer or agent?

Because one old Sterlite certificate is now shares in three or more companies, and the number printed on it is the wrong number in every one of them.

Take the family with a Sterlite Optical Technologies certificate for 250 shares of ₹5. A generalist reads “250 shares”, values them at today’s price, about ₹2.16 lakh, and prepares the simple papers for one company. But the folio really holds 1,250 Sterlite Technologies shares, about ₹10.82 lakh on their own. That is over the ₹10 lakh line, where a duplicate needs a police report and a newspaper notice and a transmission usually needs a succession certificate.

So the papers come back, and the family starts again months later. And even when the Sterlite Technologies shares are sorted, 1,250 STL Networks shares in a suspense account and 250 unlisted Sterlite Power shares are easy to leave behind. If the certificate says Sterlite Industries, there is a whole Vedanta holding as well. Shares that nobody claims keep earning dividends nobody cashes, which will one day send them to the IEPF too.

We work the other way round. We trace the complete holding first: the split, the bonus, all three demergers, the suspense accounts, every IEPF transfer, in every company the certificate leads to. Then a vetted local partner handles the paperwork where you live (affidavits, police report, newspaper notice, succession papers) on the full holding, the first time.

There is also the question of who is paid for what. A lawyer or agent is paid whether or not your shares ever arrive. We are not. Zero advance — you pay only once the shares are credited to your demat account. So we only get paid if the whole chain works.

Sterlite Technologies’ registered office is in Pune and its registrar is in Hyderabad. But the IEPF claim itself is decided in Delhi, where the IEPF Authority sits and where your file waits in the queue. Our team is in Delhi, so we can follow your file up in person, not by letter from another city. The question is not who is closest to you. It is who is closest to the office that holds your file. Share recovery in Pune · Hyderabad · Delhi.

The document is only the start. After it come the KYC, the entitlement letters, the verification, the demat credits, and a transmission if the holder has died, once for each company. Anyone can get you a piece of paper. We get you the shares. See how our IEPF claim service works.

Dates you should know about

August 2026: Sterlite Technologies’ latest batch of shares became due to move to the IEPF, for folios with unclaimed dividends from 2018–19 onwards. The next batch is expected in the second half of 2027, when the 2019–20 dividend turns seven.

October 2000 is when Sterlite Optical Technologies was carved out of Sterlite Industries, one ₹5 share for each ₹10 Sterlite Industries share. The book closure ran from 9 to 12 October 2000.

10 March 2010 is the record date of the split and the 1:1 bonus. Each ₹5 share became five ₹2 shares.

16 June 2016 is the record date of the Sterlite Power demerger. 1 Sterlite Power share for every 5 Sterlite Technologies shares.

24 April 2025 is the record date of the STL Networks demerger. 1 STL Networks share for every Sterlite Technologies share. Paper holders’ shares went to a demat suspense account.

4 February 2027 is when SEBI’s special window for old physical transfers closes.

Not sure how many shares your family’s Sterlite papers add up to, in how many companies, or whether they have gone to the IEPF? Start with Find Your Shares →

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Sterlite Technologies the same company as Sterlite Industries?
No. Sterlite Technologies was carved out of Sterlite Industries in 2000, as Sterlite Optical Technologies, and renamed in 2007. Sterlite Industries merged into Sesa Goa in 2013, which is now Vedanta. A Sterlite Industries certificate from before October 2000 carries both: Sterlite Technologies shares, one for each Sterlite Industries share, and a Vedanta holding.

What happened to Sterlite Industries?
In 2000 Sterlite Industries moved its telecom business into Sterlite Optical Technologies, now Sterlite Technologies. In August 2013 Sterlite Industries merged into Sesa Goa at 3 Sesa Goa shares for every 5 Sterlite Industries shares. Sesa Goa was renamed Sesa Sterlite and, in 2015, Vedanta Limited. In 2026 Vedanta split off four businesses into new listed companies.

How many Sterlite Technologies shares is one old ₹5 share today?
5. The split and the 1:1 bonus with a record date of 10 March 2010 turned each ₹5 share into five ₹2 shares. If the folio was held on 16 June 2016 and 24 April 2025, each old share also brought 1 Sterlite Power share and 5 STL Networks shares. At the 16 October 2026 prices of ₹865.90 and ₹42.73, that is about ₹4,543 for every old ₹5 share, plus the unlisted Sterlite Power share.

What is the Sterlite Technologies demerger ratio?
There have been two demergers out of Sterlite Technologies. In 2016, with a record date of 16 June, shareholders got 1 Sterlite Power Transmission share for every 5 Sterlite Technologies shares; Sterlite Power is unlisted. In 2025, with a record date of 24 April, shareholders got 1 STL Networks share for every 1 Sterlite Technologies share; STL Networks has been listed since September 2025. The company itself was created by a demerger from Sterlite Industries in 2000, at one share for one.

Has Sterlite Technologies ever issued bonus shares?
Once. A 1:1 bonus with a record date of 10 March 2010, together with a split of each ₹5 share into ₹2 shares. Together they turned each old ₹5 share into five ₹2 shares.

We hold paper certificates. Where are our STL Networks shares?
In STL Networks’ demat suspense account. STL Networks issued its shares in demat only, so paper shareholders who had not sent their demat details to KFin Technologies by 24 April 2025 had their shares put in that account. To get them, open a demat account, dematerialise the Sterlite Technologies shares, and ask KFin Technologies to credit the STL Networks shares from the suspense account.

What are the Sterlite Power shares, and can they be sold?
In 2016 Sterlite Technologies moved its power business into Sterlite Power Transmission and gave 1 of its shares for every 5 Sterlite Technologies shares, or a preference share to be redeemed for cash. The equity shares were never listed. Sterlite Power has since been renamed Sterlite Electric and has applied to list its shares, which had not happened as of October 2026. Unlisted shares can only be sold privately.

Who is the registrar (RTA) for Sterlite Technologies?
KFin Technologies Limited (Unit: STL) in Hyderabad. It handles demat requests, KYC, unclaimed dividends, duplicate certificates, transmission, the STL Networks shares in the suspense account, and IEPF entitlement letters.

When are Sterlite Technologies shares transferred to the IEPF?
After each dividend has gone unclaimed for seven years in a row. The latest batch covers folios with unclaimed dividends from 2018–19 onwards and became due to move in August 2026; shareholders were asked to claim by 20 July 2026. The next batch is expected in the second half of 2027. The company writes to affected shareholders and publishes a newspaper notice first.

How do I claim Sterlite Technologies shares from the IEPF?
Open a demat account, complete KYC with KFin Technologies and get an entitlement letter. Then file Form IEPF-5 on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs website and send the signed form, the original indemnity bond, a copy of your Aadhaar, the original certificates or other proof of entitlement and a cancelled cheque to the company’s nodal officer. The company has 30 days to verify the claim and the IEPF Authority 60 days to decide. STL Networks, Sterlite Power and Vedanta each need their own claim.

I have lost my Sterlite Technologies share certificate. What do I do?
If the shares are still with the company, open a demat account, then apply to KFin Technologies for duplicate shares with Form ISR-4. Up to ₹10 lakh, about 1,154 Sterlite Technologies shares at today’s price, you need a standard affidavit-cum-indemnity bond. Above that you also need a police report and a newspaper notice. A ₹5 certificate for 231 shares or more is already above ₹10 lakh today. If the shares have gone to the IEPF, you claim them with Form IEPF-5 instead.

What if the Sterlite Technologies shareholder has died?
The shares pass to the nominee or legal heirs by transmission through KFin Technologies, and are credited in demat. Simplified documents apply to physical shares worth up to ₹10 lakh per company, which with Sterlite Technologies is about 1,154 of today’s shares. Above that, heirs usually need a succession certificate or legal heir certificate unless there is a nominee or the other heirs give no-objection.

We have a ₹5 certificate and some ₹2 certificates. Do we add them up?
Usually not. If the ₹2 certificates came from the ₹5 shares through the 2010 split and bonus, they are already inside the multiple of 5. Count each ₹5 share once, ×5, and add only shares the family bought separately later. Ask KFin Technologies for the folio’s full count to be sure.

Do I have to pay SharesRecover anything upfront?
No. Zero advance — you pay only once the shares are credited to your demat account.