The Delhi Excessive Court docket has develop into the brand new battleground for a high-profile inheritance dispute after the sudden passing of industrialist Sunjay Kapur. On September 9, 2025, two of Kapur’s kids from his marriage with Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor, Samaira and Kiaan filed a petition asserting their rights as Class I authorized heirs to contest the division of his estimated Rs 30,000 crore property.
On the coronary heart of the case is a will allegedly executed by Kapur on March 21, 2025, which purportedly bequeaths his whole private property to his third spouse, Priya Kapur. The siblings have formally accused her of forging and fabricating the doc underneath suspicious circumstances. They additional allege that the desire was hid for greater than seven weeks and was solely disclosed at a personal household assembly on July 30, 2025.
The kids’s petition, filed via Lexster Regulation LPP, names a number of defendants: Priya Kapur, her minor son, Kapur’s mom Rani Kapur, and the alleged executor of the desire, Shraddha Suri Marwah. Of their plea, they demand that the courtroom acknowledge them as rightful heirs, direct a good partition granting every a one-fifth share of their father’s property, and subject an interim freeze on all private property belonging to the late industrialist.
This authorized confrontation exposes deep divisions throughout the Kapur household at a time of collective mourning, reflecting a broader rigidity between property legislation and familial bonds. The Delhi Excessive Court docket’s adjudication on this matter will decide not solely the distribution of a large inheritance however may set precedent on procedural and evidentiary requirements in contested household wills.
