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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (May 7, 2026) appointed erstwhile Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud arsenic mediator to facilitate a colony successful the bitter inheritance quality wrong the family of late businessman Sanjay Kapur, aft the contesting factions agreed to effort an amicable resolution.
A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan besides advised members of the Kapur household against making nationalist statements oregon posting connected societal media astir the quality for the “entertainment of others”.
“This being a household affair, the endeavour should beryllium to get the quality resolved astatine the earliest and enactment an extremity to the full matter...It should not beryllium a root of entertainment”, the Bench said.
The Court further observed that the parties indispensable attack the mediation process with a genuine willingness to resoluteness their differences and debar a prolonged courtroom battle. “The lone happening required is simply a affirmative framework of mind…and an attack that ‘we privation to resolve’…Otherwise, this is going to beryllium a long-drawn litigation”, the Bench said.
The connection to name Mr. Chandrachud arsenic mediator came aft elder counsels appearing for the parties conveyed their willingness to prosecute successful discussions and research the anticipation of an amicable settlement. Earlier, the Bench had nudged the parties to debar prolonged litigation implicit the sprawling Sona Group-linked estate, peculiarly since the quality besides progressive octogenarian Rani Kapur, the precocious businessman’s mother.
The Bench said it would await a preliminary study from the mediator earlier proceeding further and listed the substance for proceeding successful August.
Sunjay Kapur, chairperson of automotive constituent shaper Sona Comstar, died of a cardiac apprehension portion playing polo successful London past year. He was archetypal joined to decorator Nandita Mahtani and aboriginal to histrion Karisma Kapoor, with whom helium had 2 children — Samaira and Kiaan. Following their divorcement successful 2016, helium joined Priya Sachdev Kapur successful 2017, and the mates aboriginal had a son, Azarias.
The Rani Kapur Family Trust was created done a spot deed executed connected October 26, 2017, and presently holds shares successful Sona Comstar.
The proceedings earlier the apex tribunal stem from a petition filed by octogenarian Rani Kapur seeking extortion of the household estate. In her plea, Ms. Kapur has questioned the instauration and cognition of the household trust, alleging that the operation efficaciously divested her of power implicit important assets without her informed consent.
According to the petition, the quality dates backmost to 2017, erstwhile Ms. Kapur suffered a stroke. She has alleged that, pursuing her aesculapian condition, her precocious lad and others orchestrated the transportation of cardinal household assets into the spot without her implicit cognition oregon approval. The plea further claims that she was asked to motion documents connected the pretext of regular administrative formalities.
Among the reliefs sought earlier the apex tribunal are directions to support presumption quo implicit the property and restrain the alienation of assets during the pendency of the dispute. The petition besides challenges definite orders passed by the Delhi High Court successful connected proceedings that stay pending earlier it.
During an earlier proceeding connected April 27, the Bench had cautioned that high-stakes inheritance disputes are amended resolved done dialogue.“Why are you each fighting? This is not the property for your lawsuit to fight…go for mediation erstwhile and for all”, the Bench had remarked.
