Retired judge to mediate Sippys' property dispute

The Bombay high court has referred the property dispute between Ramesh Sippy, director of the iconic film Sholay, and his deceased brother Suresh Sippy's family for mediation.

- Karuna Nidhi

MUMBAI: Retired justice SJ Kathawalla will preside over the mediation, to be held on Friday, and try to settle the dispute peacefully, failing which the court will step in again, the division bench of justices BP Colabawalla and Firdosh P Pooniwalla said.

The dispute revolves around two sprawling flats (5A and 5B) in Shree Vijaya Bhavan on Altamount Road that were part of his deceased father and renowned film producer GP Sippy's estate. In a plea filed in the high court in 2023, Ramesh Sippy claimed that while he and legal heirs of his four siblings were each entitled to one-fifth of the shares of their father's estate, Suresh Sippy's family had taken over the flats "illegally".