Sunjay Kapur Inheritance Battle: Delhi HC Orders List Of Assets In Sealed Cover On Karisma Kapoor’s Plea

New Delhi: Late industrialist Sunjay Kapur's Rs 30,000 crore inheritance battle took a new turn when the Delhi High Court ordered to present the list of assets in sealed cover on a plea filed by Karisma Kapoor's children. Representing Karisma against Priya Sachdev (the other party in the case), senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani strongly argued against the confidentiality. "According to this bogus will, I have been deprived of everything. For me, there is nothing confidential. What is there to hide?" Jethmalani argued in the court. 

"When I am asking for a will... two bank accounts have been wiped clean and the 6% share in a company that has been appropriated to Priya Sachdev," he further informed the Delhi High Court. He highlighted how Priya Sachdev has already "appropriated the assets under will to herself". 

If a person is being deprived of his/her own assets, how can that be confidential, Jethmalani argued.

He further said that confidentiality in this case was being used as a “cloak” to conceal the true extent of the assets.

Justice Jyoti Singh, while reserving sharp comments on the heated exchanges between lawyers, clarified that while disclosure of assets to the parties was necessary, the details should not be made public at large.

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“They have no issues on disclosing the assets. All that was said, let this not be made public. You have the right to know,” the court observed.

Senior advocate Rajiv Nayar, representing Priya Sachdeva, insisted that confidentiality must be respected, saying the matter involved sensitive financial information.

Justice Jyoti Singh also recorded the undertaking from the lawyers appearing on all sides that they will not discuss the case in the media.

"Mr Rajiv Nayar submits that neither he nor any other lawyer on his side nor his clients will give any press statement concerning this case. A similar assurance is given by Mr Mahesh Jethmalani, as also Defendant Number 3 (Kapur's mother Rani Kapur)," the court recorded in its order.

Further, the court said that the copy of Kapur's will, which has been filed in the sealed cover, should be given to his mother Rani Kapur.

The next hearing is expected to focus on the division of assets, with the court stressing that parties must refrain from discussing the case publicly while it remains pending.