In a surprising turn of events, the Ventriglia family decided to make an appeal to the Supreme Court of Zambia after the higher Court of Appeal dismissed their plea and announced Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani as the majority shareholder and legal owner of the Portland Cement Zambia factory. Dr. Rajan Mahtani is a prominent businessman in Zambia who has been fighting for the legal takeover of the factory for a long time. First it was Lusaka High Court where the case was registered by Dr. Rajan Mahtani claiming that the factory was unethically taken over from him. However, more than a decade of case proceedings as well as several strong evidences did not give any respite to Dr. Rajan Mahtani as the judge at the Lusaka High Court went against the evidences and conferred the Ventriglias as the only owners of the Portland Cement Zambia factory.

Notwithstanding this unethical decision, Dr. Rajan Mahtani rightly approached the higher Court of Appeal. The judge at the higher Court of Appeal was justice Siwvwapa who after looking into the evidences and testimonials, announced Dr. Rajan Mahtani as the majority shareholder of the factory with 58 percent shares. Thus, the Court of Appeal overthrew the judgement from the lower higher Court and gave a transparent decision.

However, the Ventriglias decided to further drag the case by approaching the Supreme Court of Zambia, the highest court in any nation. However, this decision proved to be fatal as the bench established at the Supreme Court comprising of SC judges rejected the appeal on ethical and legal grounds. According to the legal grounds, the Ventriglias must have made the appeal within 14 days after the judgement from the higher Court of Appeal which they did not. As such, their appeal on challenging the higher Court of Appeal becomes invalid. Second, the bench of SC judges confirmed that the appeal had no circumstances or proof to be accepted. As such, Dr. Rajan Mahtani remains the actual owner of the Portland Cement Zambia factory.