Today, On 15th October, Priya Sachdev Kapur appeared before the Delhi High Court , defending her late husband Sunjay Kapur’s will. She stated the document is genuine and that mere typographical errors cannot invalidate the will under the law.
Priya Sachdev Kapur presented her case to the Delhi High Court , asserting that her husband Sunjay Kapur’s will is authentic and that allegations of forgery against her are unfounded.
Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar, representing Kapur, argued that typographical mistakes in the will do not render it invalid, emphasizing that no one has contested the legitimacy of Sunjay Kapur’s signature on the document.
Nayar questioned,
“The only grounds of challenge to a will are if the deceased was not in a sound mind or that he was under some coercion or inability to execute the will. Now I am being told that there are four additional grounds like wrong spelling, wrong address, errors like writing testatrix instead of testator and closeness of witnesses. Is a will to be invalidated because there are spelling errors?”
He further contended that the will’s emergence seven weeks after Sunjay Kapur’s passing does not invalidate it either.
“Is it a ground to invalidate the will just because it surfaced after 7 weeks? Is that a challenge maintainable under the law? Suppose I kept the will in my pocket, and it surfaces at an appropriate time, will it be declared invalid?”
Nayar submitted before Justice Jyoti Singh, who was presiding over the partition suit filed by actor Karisma Kapoor’s children, who are seeking a share of their father Sunjay Kapur’s assets. Nayar was opposing an interim relief application aimed at preventing Priya Kapur from creating third-party rights over the assets.
The siblings have accused their stepmother, Priya Kapur (the third wife of Sanjay Kapur), of forging Sunjay Kapur’s will in an attempt to gain total control of the estate.
Karisma Kapoor and Sunjay Kapur were married for 13 years, from 2003 to 2016, before their divorce. Sunjay later wed Priya.
At the heart of the dispute is a will dated March 21, 2025, which allegedly bequeaths Sunjay Kapur’s entire personal estate to Priya Sachdeva Kapur. Nayar asserted that Karisma Kapoor has attempted to portray their relationship as unproblematic, but he countered that this view is incorrect.
He remarked,
“Of course in wife versus wife, the present wife will be preferred, not the estranged wife,”
Regarding the legitimacy of the two witnesses to the will, Nayar noted that they were a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a Company Secretary (CS), and pointed out that Sunjay Kapur’s father’s will was also signed by a CA and CS from the same company.
He added,
“I have also produced affidavits of the two witnesses,”
Nayar will continue his arguments on Friday.
Earlier, Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, representing the plaintiffs, claimed that the will was forged by Priya Sachdev Kapur with assistance from the two witnesses and the executor.
In a high-profile family dispute, the children of Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor and late businessman Sunjay Kapur have approached the Delhi High Court seeking their share in their father’s estimated Rs 30,000 crore estate.
The children alleged that Priya Kapur, Sunjay Kapur’s third wife, had forged his will to claim complete control over the assets, leaving them unfairly excluded. The disputed will, dated 21 March 2025, reportedly bequeaths the entire estate solely to Priya Kapur.
The suit names Priya Kapur, her minor son, Sunjay Kapur’s mother Rani Kapur, and the executor of the will, Shradha Suri Marwah, as defendants. The children claim that Priya, along with associates Dinesh Agarwal and Nitin Sharma, concealed the will for over seven weeks and disclosed it only at a family meeting on 30 July 2025.
They have argued that the will is forged and fabricated, citing suspicious circumstances and refusal to provide them with a copy. Through their petition, the children seek:
- Declaration as Class I legal heirs under the Hindu Succession Act.
- Partition of the estate, granting each child a one-fifth share.
- Interim freezing of all personal assets of Sunjay Kapur to prevent misuse.
Case Title: MS. SAMAIRA KAPUR & ANR. V/s MRS. PRIYA KAPUR & ORS. CS(OS)-627/2025
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