The path to winning the Portland Cement Zambia case was not easy. Dr. Rajan Mahtani worked for more than a decade for achieving the rightful ownership of the cement factory. Despite several attempts to get back ownership of the factory, Dr. Mahtani never received justice majorly due to the shortcomings and challenges of the Zambian legal and judiciary system. For instance, Dr. Rajan Mahtani possessed all evidences, facts and testimonials to prove his point and despite this, the judge at the Lusaka High Court failed to provide the right judgement for the businessman. The decision went for the Ventriglias and was totally controversial.

Not getting down by these controversial decisions, Dr. Rajan Mahtani rightly approached the higher Court of Appeal. The judgement at Court of Appeal was swift and transparent and was given after looking into all evidences and testimonials submitted. For instance, it was found that Dr. Mahtani paid one billion kwachas for getting majority shareholding by owning 58 percent Portland Cement shares. Furthermore, the evidences also confirmed that this shareholding pattern was accepted by all shareholders of the factory and it was also confirmed that Dr. Rajan Mahtani did not own any further payments associated with the factory. Based on all these evidences, it is now confirmed that Dr. Rajan Mahtani is the actual owner of the factory.

Several other details were shared by the higher Court of Appeal judge which further exposed the wrongdoings of the previous judge and the inability of the Zambian justice system which is responsible for the challenges faced by honest and ethical businessmen like Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani. It was found that the process of electronically affixing signatures for business transactions was a common practice at the Zambezi Portland Cement. Being an acceptable practice, it was also found that Claudio Ventriglia, a critical member of the Ventriglias family, engaged in similar practice. As such, all forgery related allegations were found to be baseless and were discarded by the judge.