Sanjay Kapur family trust case: Delhi HC seeks reply from Priya Kapur, others on Rani Kapur's plea

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought responses from Priya Kapur and 22 others on a petition filed by Rani Kapur seeking cancellation of the Rani Kapur Family Trust, which holds a stake in auto component maker Sona Comstar.

The court has listed the matter for the next hearing on March 23.

The case is part of the ongoing inheritance dispute over the assets of late industrialist Sunjay Kapur. His mother, 80-year-old Rani Kapur, has approached the High Court seeking to declare the “RK Family Trust/Rani Kapur Family Trust” as fraudulent, null and void, and to cancel it. She has also asked the court to restrain Priya Kapur from using or acting in furtherance of the trust and sought a full account of the trust’s activities since its inception.


In her plea, Rani Kapur claims to be the matriarch of the Kapur family, which includes her two daughters, her late son Sunjay, and their children — her seven grandchildren.

The dispute picked steam after actor Karisma Kapoor’s children also sought a share in their late father’s estimated Rs 30,000 crore assets.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had asked Karisma Kapoor to file objections to a plea by Priya Kapur seeking details of Karisma’s 2016 divorce proceedings with Sunjay Kapur. Priya has sought certified copies of pleadings, documents and orders from that case to understand the financial and child custody arrangements made during Sunjay’s lifetime.

Sunjay Kapur, former chairman of Sona Comstar, died of a heart attack in the UK on June 12 last year at the age of 53. He was married to Priya Kapur at the time of his death and had a son, Azarius, with her.

In the inheritance case, Priya Kapur’s senior counsel Maninder Singh told the court that clarity on the divorce settlement was necessary to assess whether the issues now being raised by Karisma Kapoor’s children had already been settled during Sunjay’s lifetime.

In a closed-chamber hearing, Justice A.S. Chandurkar said he would consider whether these confidential records should be given to Priya and asked Karisma Kapoor to file objections within two weeks.

Karisma’s counsel termed Priya’s plea “frivolous” and said it was an attempt to access personal and confidential information. He argued that the consent terms and divorce decree had already been filed by Priya in another matter before the Delhi High Court involving Karisma’s children.

In her application, Priya Kapur said she was the legally wedded wife and a direct legal heir of the deceased industrialist. She said the request for documents was bona fide and directly linked to deciding succession and inheritance issues, and that no prejudice would be caused to Karisma Kapoor by their disclosure.