The Delhi High Court has sought a response from Priya Kapur, wife of the late businessman Sunjay Kapur, after the children of actor Karisma Kapoor moved a plea requesting inspection of their father’s alleged original will, dated March 21, 2025. According to reports this is the document that purportedly leaves Kapur’s assets reportedly worth Rs 30,000 crore almost entirely to Priya, thus sparking a bitter inheritance battle.
Samaira and Kiaan seek to inspect the will
On November 11, Sunjay’s first two children Samaira and Kiaan, from his marriage to Karisma, moved an application before the Joint Registrar seeking to inspect the said will. However, it has been reported that Priya and co-defendant Shraddha Suri Marwah opposed the request, prompting the Registrar (Judicial) Gagandeep Jindal to issue them notices and asked them to file their replies within three weeks. The matter has now been listed for December 16.
Karisma’s children allege forgery
According to the plaintiffs, the alleged will is forged and fabricated, and the signatures on it are not those of their father but allegedly forged by Priya in collusion with the attesting witnesses. The children also claimed that the document bears marks of fabrication including discrepancies in metadata, inconsistencies in the testator’s address, gender and contradictions with earlier instruments. On the other hand, the counsel for Priya claimed the application had been filed after they described the plaintiffs’ claims as “bogus and baseless”. In an earlier hearing, they had said, “A will cannot be called fake because of spelling errors, and they have not even disputed Sunjay Kapur’s signature”.The counsel claimed that after this argument was raised, the plaintiffs have now filed the fresh application questioning the authenticity of the signature.In the application, Karisma’s children have sought inspection of the original alleged will. It said, “It is submitted that inspection of the original copy of the alleged will is inter alia necessary for the plaintiffs to take appropriate steps regarding the genuineness of the said document, which cannot be ascertained from the true certified copy supplied to the plaintiffs by defendant number four (Marwah).”
Karisma’s children file injunction
The court is also hearing arguments on an interim injunction application filed by Karisma’schildren to restrain Priya from alienating them from Sunjay’s assets. The hearing on the plea will continue on November 20.
Priya dubbed as ‘Cinderella’s stepmother’
The children have questioned the authenticity of the purported will. They accused Priya of being “greedy”, while terming her “Cinderella stepmother” before the court. In the fairytale Cinderella, the namesake young woman is mistreated by her stepmother, who focuses all of her attention on her own two daughters.Earlier, the high court also asked Priya to submit a list of Kapur’s assets. Meanwhile, she informed the court that the actor’s children have already received Rs 1,900 crore from the family trust. Go to Source
