How to Claim Jindal Steel Shares from IEPF 2026

Under the Companies Act, any dividend that stays unpaid or unclaimed for seven consecutive years must be transferred by the company to the IEPF — and crucially, the underlying shares are transferred along with it. For Jindal Steel shareholders this usually happens quietly: a change of address, an old folio from a physical certificate era, a bank account that was closed, or a holder who passed away without the family knowing about the investment.

Once the shares sit with the IEPF Authority, they no longer appear in your demat account or the company’s active register, which is why most people assume the investment is simply lost. It is not. The holding is held in trust and can be reclaimed by the rightful owner or legal heir through the IEPF-5 refund process.

Long-held physical certificates and bonus or rights issues are the most common source of these forgotten Jindal Steel holdings.

Jindal Steel is also recorded in older registers as Jindal Strips Limited, Orbit Strips Limited, Nalwa Sons Investments Limited, Jindal Steel & Power Limited, Jindal Steel Limited. Shares and dividends held under any of those names are the same holding and can be claimed together.

1. Confirm the holding. Start with a free search of your name against our Jindal Steel records above. This tells you whether there is an unclaimed entry and roughly what it is worth before you spend anything.

2. Prepare the IEPF-5 claim. Our team drafts Form IEPF-5 on the MCA portal together with the indemnity bond, advance stamped receipt, and the company-specific annexures that Jindal Steel’s registrar (RTA) expects.

3. Company (RTA) verification. The signed physical set is sent to Jindal Steel’s nodal officer, who verifies your entitlement against their records and submits a verification report to the IEPF Authority.

4. Credit of shares and dividend. On approval, the shares are credited to your demat account and the accumulated unpaid dividend is released to your bank — with interest, where applicable.

For most Jindal Steel claims you will need: PAN and Aadhaar of the claimant, a cancelled cheque or bank passbook for the demat-linked account, the client master list (CML) of the demat account where shares should be credited, and proof of entitlement such as the original share certificate, a demat transaction statement, or the folio number.

Where the original shareholder has passed away, the claim is filed by the legal heir and additionally needs the death certificate, succession proof (will, succession certificate or legal-heir certificate) and, in some cases, a notarised indemnity. We tell you exactly which of these apply to your specific Jindal Steel case before any paperwork begins.

IEPF recovery is a documentation-heavy process where a single mismatched signature, an outdated specimen, or a missing annexure sends the whole file back to the start. Infiny Solutions has recovered unclaimed investments for families since 2014, with Chartered Accountants who prepare, file and follow up each Jindal Steel claim end to end.

Our fee is success-based: you pay when the recovery actually reaches your demat and bank, not before. That keeps our interest aligned with yours — getting your Jindal Steel shares and dividends back, in full, as quickly as the MCA and the company’s registrar allow.