Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd is one of India's oldest listed companies, and thousands of retail investors still hold physical share certificates from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. If you have old Bombay Dyeing certificates that need to be dematerialised, or if dividends have been accumulating unpaid for years, this guide covers exactly what to do.
By RK Gupta, Company Secretary · Updated June 2026 · 12 min read
Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd was incorporated in 1879 as part of the Wadia group, one of India's most prominent business families. For most of the 20th century, the company was synonymous with cotton textiles — bed sheets, fabrics, and home furnishings sold across India under the Bombay Dyeing brand. It was a household name, and that meant it was also a popular investment through the 1970s, 1980s, and into the early 1990s.
The company is listed on BSE under the ticker BOMDYEING (BSE code: 500020) and on NSE under the same ticker. The ISIN for Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd is INE032A01023. That ISIN is the number that matters when you are dematerialising old physical certificates — it tells the depository exactly which scrip your shares belong to.
Over the past two decades, Bombay Dyeing went through a significant strategic pivot. The textiles business contracted sharply, and the company reinvested heavily into real estate development in Mumbai, operating under the brand name Bombay Realty. Many long-term shareholders from the textile era don't fully understand this shift — they held shares in a textile company and are surprised to find the same company now operates mixed-use residential and commercial projects.
The key point for shareholders: Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd is still the listed entity. Bombay Realty is a brand, not a separately listed company. Your old Bombay Dyeing certificates are equity in the same company that now runs these real estate projects.
During the pre-liberalisation era, Bombay Dyeing was a blue-chip textile stock. Retail investors from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and across India picked up these shares through brokers, rights issues, and public offerings. Certificates were issued in paper form and stored in almirahs and bank lockers for decades.
Several things happen over time that make these certificates complicated. The original shareholder may have passed away. The registered address may have changed multiple times. Bank accounts linked to dividend payment may have closed. The registered name on the certificate may not exactly match the PAN or Aadhaar of the person now trying to act on the shares.
Some families discover Bombay Dyeing certificates only when clearing out the belongings of a deceased parent or grandparent. Others have known about the holding for years but assumed the certificates were no longer valid, or that the company had delisted. Neither of those assumptions is correct. Bombay Dyeing is actively listed, and physical certificates in a holder's name remain valid regardless of how old they are.
The Registrar and Transfer Agent (RTA) for Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd is MUFG Intime India Pvt Ltd, formerly known as Link Intime India Pvt Ltd. The name changed after the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group acquired a stake in the business, but it's the same organisation handling Bombay Dyeing's shareholder records.
MUFG Intime's registered office is at C-101, 1st Floor, 247 Park, Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, Vikhroli West, Mumbai 400083. Their investor service portal is at web.linkintime.co.in — the URL still references the Link Intime branding. You can raise service requests there for folio queries, address update, bank mandate update, and dividend revalidation.
For all Bombay Dyeing share-related work — demat requests, transmission, dividend queries, name correction — MUFG Intime is your primary point of contact. Always quote your folio number when writing or calling them. The folio number is printed on your share certificate, typically in the format BD followed by a numeric string.
You can also read our detailed guide on how to deal with MUFG Intime as an investor for more background on how RTAs work.
Before starting any process, confirm the current status of your holding. There are four ways to do this:
Your certificate will show the holder's name, folio number, number of shares, distinctive numbers (a range like 123456 to 123600, indicating 145 shares), and the face value. The face value on old certificates is likely Rs. 10 per share — Bombay Dyeing has had face value changes over the years, so confirm the current face value with MUFG Intime if your certificate is very old.
Send a written query to MUFG Intime at their Vikhroli office, or use the portal at web.linkintime.co.in. Provide the folio number, name of the registered holder, and the ISIN INE032A01023. Ask them to confirm whether the folio is still active and how many shares are currently registered.
If dividends went unclaimed for 7 or more consecutive years, shares would have been transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund. Check the IEPF Authority portal at iepf.gov.in under the shareholder search section. Enter Bombay Dyeing's name or CIN (L17120MH1879PLC000037) and your name or folio number to see if your shares appear in the IEPF records.
The listed company's investor relations section is accessible through the BSE filing portal or the company's own website. Bombay Dyeing's corporate website is wadia.com and bombayrealty.com — look for the Investor Relations section for annual reports, IEPF lists, and nodal officer contact details.
Dematerialising Bombay Dyeing shares follows the standard DRF (Dematerialisation Request Form) process governed by SEBI and NSDL/CDSL rules. Here is the process from start to finish:
The typical timeline is 15 to 30 working days from submission to credit, provided the certificates are clean and the name on the certificate matches your demat account exactly. Discrepancies in name spelling or holder order will cause rejection.
Need help with this process? Our Physical Shares to Demat Conversion service handles the paperwork end-to-end.
Every pre-demat share certificate carries a distinctive number range — for example, "Distinctive Nos. 0045001 to 0045500" means that certificate represents 500 shares. These numbers were used in the physical share register era to uniquely identify each share. When you fill the DRF, you must enter the distinctive number range as shown on the certificate.
Distinctive numbers do not affect the value or validity of your shares — they are simply tracking identifiers from the old physical system. Once shares are dematerialised, the concept of distinctive numbers no longer applies. The holding is recorded electronically against your DP ID and client ID. You can read more about what distinctive numbers mean and whether they matter in our dedicated guide.
Bombay Dyeing has declared dividends at various points in its history. Shareholders who moved house, changed banks, or lost track of their holding often accumulated several years of unclaimed dividends. Dividend warrants sent to the registered address would have gone unencashed if returned undelivered.
Unclaimed dividends are held by the company for 7 years. After that, they are transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF). So if your Bombay Dyeing dividends from, say, 2015 or earlier went unclaimed, that money may now be in IEPF.
Contact MUFG Intime with your folio number and ask for a statement of unclaimed dividends. They can tell you which years' dividends remain unclaimed and their status. For recent dividend years (within the past 7 years), the company or MUFG Intime can revalidate the warrant or arrange an NECS credit directly to your bank account.
To update your bank mandate with MUFG Intime so future dividends reach you directly:
Once the bank mandate is updated, MUFG Intime will process future dividend transfers by NECS directly to your account. You will not need to handle physical warrants again.
Our Unclaimed Dividend Recovery service can help you trace and recover Bombay Dyeing dividends from MUFG Intime or IEPF.
This is the situation many families discover after a shareholder passes away or when they finally retrieve old certificates from a locker. If dividends from Bombay Dyeing went unclaimed for 7 or more consecutive years, the following happens automatically under Section 124(6) of the Companies Act 2013:
At this point, you no longer hold the shares in your own name — IEPF holds them. The shares are not lost forever, but recovering them requires a formal claim process.
Go to iepf.gov.in and use the shareholder search. Alternatively, Bombay Dyeing is required to publish the names of shareholders whose shares have been transferred to IEPF on their investor relations page and in the annual report. Check the company's annual report appendices for the IEPF transfer list.
You can also search IEPF records by entering Bombay Dyeing's CIN — L17120MH1879PLC000037 — on the MCA portal (mca.gov.in) or on iepf.gov.in.
To reclaim shares and dividends transferred to IEPF from Bombay Dyeing, you must file Form IEPF-5 online on the MCA portal. Here is the process:
Send the physical documents to the Nodal Officer, Investor Relations, Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Neville House, J.N. Heredia Marg, Ballard Estate, Mumbai 400001. Address it specifically to the IEPF Nodal Officer to ensure it reaches the right department.
After the company verifies the documents, they submit a verification report to the IEPF Authority. IEPF then processes the claim and transfers the shares back to your demat account and the dividend amount to your bank. The total process typically takes 60 to 90 days from the date the company receives the complete documents.
Our IEPF Claim Assistance service handles Form IEPF-5 preparation, document compilation, and follow-up for Bombay Dyeing cases.
If the registered holder of Bombay Dyeing shares has passed away, the shares need to be transmitted to the legal heirs before any demat conversion or sale can happen. This is a separate process from a sale or transfer — transmission is the legal recognition of the change in ownership due to death.
The process is handled through MUFG Intime and requires the following documents:
Once transmission is completed, MUFG Intime updates the folio to reflect the new holder's name. The shares can then be dematerialised or dealt with as required. If transmission is required because shares are in IEPF, the IEPF-5 form must be filed by the legal heir, with all transmission documents attached.
Read our guide on Share Transmission for Legal Heirs for more detail on this process, including state-specific legal heir certificate requirements.
Name mismatches are extremely common with Bombay Dyeing certificates from the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, names were entered manually and often abbreviated — "Ramesh Kumar Sharma" might appear as "R.K. Sharma" on the certificate, but the PAN says "Ramesh Kumar Sharma." This discrepancy will cause the DRF to be rejected by MUFG Intime.
The remedy is to file a name correction request with MUFG Intime before attempting dematerialisation. SEBI's circular on Investor Service Requests (dated November 2021) standardised this process across all RTAs through Form ISR-1. You submit ISR-1 along with:
MUFG Intime will endorse the share certificate or update the folio with the correct name, after which dematerialisation can proceed. Our Share Name Correction service manages this for investors dealing with MUFG Intime or any other RTA.
If the original share certificate has been lost, stolen, or destroyed, you need to apply for a duplicate certificate before you can dematerialise. This requires filing a complaint with the police station, publishing a notice in a local newspaper and one English daily, and submitting an indemnity bond and affidavit to MUFG Intime. The company charges a fee for duplicate certificates as per their published schedule.
Once MUFG Intime issues a duplicate, you can proceed with the standard DRF process. Our Lost Share Certificate service handles this entire process including FIR, newspaper notices, and document submission to the RTA.
Some investors confuse Bombay Dyeing with Sahara group investments, since both were popular retail investment options in the 1970s–1990s era. These are entirely separate — Bombay Dyeing is a Wadia group company listed on BSE and NSE, while Sahara's fixed income schemes were unrelated instruments governed by a different legal framework. If you are looking for Sahara refunds, that goes through the CRCS Sahara Refund Portal, not through Bombay Dyeing or MUFG Intime. See our separate guide on Sahara CRCS Refund Claims.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Company Name | Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd |
| BSE Ticker | BOMDYEING (BSE: 500020) |
| NSE Ticker | BOMDYEING |
| ISIN | INE032A01023 |
| CIN | L17120MH1879PLC000037 |
| RTA | MUFG Intime India Pvt Ltd (formerly Link Intime) |
| RTA Address | C-101, 1st Floor, 247 Park, LBS Marg, Vikhroli West, Mumbai 400083 |
| RTA Portal | web.linkintime.co.in |
| Nodal Officer Address (IEPF) | Neville House, J.N. Heredia Marg, Ballard Estate, Mumbai 400001 |
| IEPF Portal | iepf.gov.in |
| MCA Portal (Form IEPF-5) | mca.gov.in |
| Demat Timeline | 15–30 working days from DRF submission |
| IEPF Claim Timeline | 60–90 days from document receipt by company |
If you are reading this because you have just found a Bombay Dyeing certificate in a drawer or locker, here is what to do before anything else:
Skipping step 4 and going straight to dematerialisation is the most common mistake we see. The DRF will be rejected if the name doesn't match, and you will waste time. Get the folio clean first, then demat.
Investor Helpdesk provides documentation support and process guidance only — we are not affiliated with any government body, SEBI, MCA, or any RTA, and this is not legal or investment advice.
Questions investors ask about Bombay Dyeing shares, IEPF, and unclaimed dividends
Bombay Realty is not a separately listed company — it is the real estate brand of Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. The listed entity on BSE and NSE is still Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd (ticker: BOMDYEING). If you hold physical shares of Bombay Dyeing from the textile era, those shares are still valid equity in the same listed company that now operates primarily through real estate development. Your certificate does not need to say "Bombay Realty" to be valid.
The ISIN for Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd is INE032A01023. When your depository participant (DP) submits a Dematerialisation Request Form (DRF) to MUFG Intime India Pvt Ltd, this ISIN is used to credit the shares to your demat account. Verify the ISIN on your share certificate or with MUFG Intime before submitting the DRF. Entering the wrong ISIN will result in rejection and delay.
Yes, you can. There is no expiry on physical share certificates. As long as the shares are still registered in your name in Bombay Dyeing's register maintained by MUFG Intime, dematerialisation is possible. For very old certificates, first check with MUFG Intime whether the folio is active, whether any face value change has occurred, and whether the shares have been transferred to IEPF. Only after confirming the folio status should you proceed with the DRF.
If Bombay Dyeing dividends went unclaimed for 7 or more consecutive years, both the dividends and the corresponding shares would have been transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF). To reclaim them, file Form IEPF-5 on the MCA portal at mca.gov.in, then send the physical documents to Bombay Dyeing's Nodal Officer at Neville House, J.N. Heredia Marg, Ballard Estate, Mumbai 400001. The typical processing time is 60 to 90 days after the company receives complete documents.
Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd's Registrar and Transfer Agent is MUFG Intime India Pvt Ltd (formerly Link Intime India Pvt Ltd). Their registered office is C-101, 1st Floor, 247 Park, Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, Vikhroli West, Mumbai 400083. Access their investor service portal at web.linkintime.co.in. For all Bombay Dyeing share queries — demat, dividend, name change, transmission — always quote your folio number when contacting MUFG Intime.
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