Preserve Sunjay’s assets: HC to Priya

{ KAPUR ESTATE DISPUTE } DELHI HC ORDER

- Shruti Kakkar

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Priya Kapur, widow of businessman Sunjay Kapur, to preserve his assets and refrain from creating any third-party rights over them, the latest in a long-drawn fight over the industrialist’s estate, with multiple family members contesting a will that allegedly leaves everything to his widow.

Justice Jyoti Singh observed that the genuineness of the will was now a matter for trial and that, pending adjudication, the assets must not be dissipated. If they were depleted and Priya ultimately failed to prove the will's validity, Sunjay’s children with actor Karisma Kapoor—Samaira and Kiaan—and his mother, Rani Kapur, would be deprived of their shares as Class I heirs, the court reasoned.