The Delhi High Court has asked for a peaceful solution to the property disagreement relating to the late businessman, Sunjay Kapur, as new requests and answers to claims have brought the case to a new point. Justice Mini Pushkarna issued notifications and gave time limits after Priya Kapur asked for the dismissal of a case begun by her mother-in-law, Rani Kapur. The court requested the people involved to think about mediation, and to value family connections while the case goes on.
What the court has ordered and what happens next in the process
The court gave Rani Kapur four weeks to send in her answer to Priya Kapur’s request to have the civil case thrown out. Once Rani responds, Priya will be given two weeks to add anything further if she wants to. The judge also gave notice of a separate request by Priya, who said Rani had made untrue statements in the earlier official papers.
Senior Advocate Akhil Sibal – who is representing Priya – said that many of the claims in the first case were not correct, and asked the court to get involved. The High Court’s orders make a close-to-future schedule, and allow the chance for both what actually happened and process problems to be tested before the papers are finished.
What the dispute is about: The RK Family Trust
The main point of the disagreement is the claim by 80-year-old Rani Kapur that an RK Family Trust – which was supposedly set up in her name in October 2017 – was made up and a fraud. Her case in law says she was wrongly deprived of rights, possessions and what she and her late husband, Surinder Kapur, had built up in their estate.
Rani’s request to the court says that a complicated series of deals moved family possessions into the trust without her knowing, wrongly giving control to others. The case names Priya Kapur, some grandchildren, and related people, and asks the court to say that the trust is not legally binding and to stop any further use of trust possessions.
How family is involved, and what people are feeling
The disagreement has come about soon after a time of sadness. Sunjay Kapur died in June 2025, and family members are showing grief in public at the same time as making legal claims. Rani’s daughter, Mandhira Kapur, has said she supports her mother, and has described the case as an attempt to protect what she and her husband had made.
During the hearing, Justice Pushkarna asked family members to sit down together and look at a solution, saying that money shouldn’t become a ‘bad thing’. The court’s words stressed respect for relationships and encouraged people to work together to sort out different interests without a long public legal battle.
What is at stake in law, and what this could mean more generally
Aside from questions of family relationships, the disagreement raises important business and company problems. Rani has asked for orders to keep the estate safe and to stop company profits from being given out – which she says were wrongly taken away.
If a court eventually says the trust is not legal, ownership and control of possessions tied to the trust could be looked at again, with results for how related business groups are governed. The process also involves claims of made-up papers and possible problems with deals done while Sunjay was alive.
If these claims are shown to be true, this could start processes to give back possessions and changes to shares or rights in running the company, depending on how courts judge what happened and what people meant to do.
What will happen soon, and the possible ways to end the disagreement
The immediate time plan set by the court – four weeks for Rani’s answer and two weeks for Priya’s addition – will give shape to the next weeks of the legal battle. The High Court has kept open the possibility of mediation and asked lawyers to think about settlement talks to protect the interests of everyone involved.
A future hearing will decide whether the court goes towards a trial, orders short-term protection for possessions, or sends the people to other ways of sorting out disagreements. For now, the court is mainly trying to make the problems smaller and to encourage a helpful way that balances legal solutions with family getting back together.
