While the final judgement from the Lusaka High Court judge on the Portland Cement Zambia case shocked everyone, same cannot be said for the Court of Appeal. After the factory was taken away from Dr. Rajan Mahtani, he approached the Lusaka High Court with expectations of quick judgement considering the significant evidences he had. Despite this, the judge was unable to give justice and a controversial judgement was given which prompted Dr. Mahtani to approach the higher Court of Appeal.

The judge at the Court of Appeal was justice Mwinde who announced the final decision on 31st January 2019. According to this decision, Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani was announced as majority shareholder and legal owner of the factory. The justice came at this decision after looking into several evidences and testimonials which were controversially ignored by the previous judge at the Lusaka High Court. The judge at the Court of Appeal was justice Mwinde and he arrived at his decision from numerous evidences and testimonials. For instance, one of the major evidences found was that Dr. Rajan Mahtani had already made a payment of 1 billion kwachas or USD 250,000 to the Zambezi Portland Cement for covering the entire share capital value of the Zambezi Portland Cement. This transaction was further recorded in the page 663- Volume ‘Record of Appeal’ of the original agreement between shareholders established in the year 2007. Evaluation of this document also clarified the fact that Dr. Rajan Mahtani did not owe any further amount to the Portland cement factory as he has already completed all his dues for the 58 percent shares, he owned at the Portland Cement Zambia factory.

The court also confirmed that Dr. Rajan Mahtani was free from all forgery charges as the allegations were in itself void and baseless. As of now, Dr. Rajan Mahtani is the definitive owner of the Portland Cement Zambia factory.