The publisher has also filed an application for deletion of its name from the suit.

Singhania earlier requested the High Court to move the matter to a Mumbai court.

The Singhania junior feels that succession in family-owned companies should not be an automatic choice of sons or daughters of promoters.

He is 81 years old. I have offered him, contrary to what the press believes, several times to come and live with me, Gautam said.

Raymond filed a suit alleging that the book's contents were defamatory.