The case of Portland Cement Zambia is age old. Dr. Rajan Mahtani is a noted businessman and philanthropist who registered the case at the Lusaka High Court claiming that the factory was illegally taken over from him. However, the case faced several challenges and took more than a decade to give the final announcement. During the long running for more than ten years, the case saw various changes, particularly because of the exchange of judges. This further extended the course of events of the case as the new judge required more opportunity to go over the case and reach to a good position for further contentions and preliminaries. The most recent judge administering the case made a position declaration hardly any months back by announcing that the case hearing was shut. This implied the preliminaries and contentions are finished and the two gatherings were additionally approached to present their confirmations in composed and oral arrangement. It was sure news for Dr. Mahtani and his legal advisors as larger part of the archives and confirmations presented by them were all that anyone could need to demonstrate his customer of lawful responsibility for production line.
After the misdirected judgement from the Lusaka High Court, the Court of Appeal was approached. The judge at the Court of Appeal as justice Mwinde who gave the final judgement on 31st January 2019. According to this judgement, Dr. Rajan Mahtani owned Finsbury Investments holds 58 percent shares at the factory and is the majority shareholder of the factory. On the other hand, Ventriglias owned Ital Terrazzo Limited holds just 42 percent shares at the factory and are the minority shareholders without any legal ownership. This decision from the Court of Appeal aligned with the original shareholders agreement and further confirmed that Dr. Rajan Mahtani is the actual and legal owner of the Portland Cement Zambia factory.