NEW DELHI: Rani Kapur, mother of industrialist and Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor’s former husband Sunjay Kapur, has approached the Delhi High Court seeking that their family trust be declared “null and void”.
In her petition, which is likely to come up for hearing in the coming days, Rani, 80, has claimed that the trust constituted in her name in October 2017 was a product of “forged, fabricated and fraudulent” documents.
The petition has urged the court to “permanently restrain the defendants (her daughter-in-law Priya Kapur, Sunjay second wife, and others, including grandchildren) from utilising or acting in furtherance of the ‘RK Family Trust’ in any manner whatsoever.”
The petition has also arrayed Sunjay Kapur’s two children with actor Karishma Kapoor, his second wife, as parties in matter. In addition, the petition claimed that Rani is the sole beneficiary of the entire estate of her late husband Surinder Kapur, who was the promoter of various businesses, including the ‘Sona Group of Companies’. “A systematic fraud was committed on her when the assets were transferred to the RK Family Trust,” it claimed.
The plea further claimed that, “Sunjay never confirmed to Rani that she had been divested of all her rights, assets and legacy, and never provided a copy of the purported RK Family Trust to her.”
It claimed, “Priya, by means of a complex web of illegal transactions, in an unfortunate collusion with the plaintiff’s now deceased son, vested all the plaintiff’s assets in one fraudulent trust titled - RK Family Trust, without her knowledge.” Sunjay Kapur passed away on June 12 after collapsing during a polo match in England. He reportedly suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.
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