Film producer Boney Kapoor and daughters Janhvi and Khushi Kapoor have approached the Madras High Court over a civil dispute involving 4.7 acres of land purchased by late actress Sridevi in Chennai in 1988. The High Court has stayed proceedings in the lower court and will hear the Kapoor family’s plea on March 26.
Film producer Boney Kapoor along with his actor daughters Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor has moved the Madras High Court challenging the refusal of a lower court to dismiss a civil suit concerning a prime land parcel on Chennai’s East Coast Road (ECR) that was purchased decades ago by late legendary actress Sridevi.
The legal dispute relates to nearly 4.7 acres of land on the ECR in Chennai that Sridevi had purchased in 1988. A civil suit has recently been filed by certain individuals claiming rights over the property and seeking cancellation of the sale deeds executed in favour of the actress nearly four decades ago.
On Monday, Justice T.V. Thamilselvi of the Madras High Court decided to take up the civil revision petition filed jointly by the Kapoor family. The Court has scheduled the matter for hearing on March 26, 2026. Until then, the High Court has ordered a temporary stay on all further proceedings before the Chengalpattu district court where the original suit is currently pending.
The civil suit was filed by a woman named Chandrabanu along with her two children, M.C. Sivakami and M.C. Natarajan. They have claimed that they are entitled to a share in the property which they say originally belonged to Chandrabanu’s husband, M.C. Chandrasekaran.
The Kapoor family, however, strongly disputed these claims before the High Court. They argued that Chandrabanu’s marriage to Chandrasekaran itself was legally invalid because it allegedly took place while Chandrasekaran’s first marriage was still subsisting. According to them, under Indian law, such a marriage would be void from the beginning because bigamy is prohibited.
The Kapoor family further alleged that this important fact was deliberately hidden by the plaintiffs while presenting their family lineage in the lawsuit. In their petition before the High Court, they argued that this omission was a serious attempt to mislead the court.
The petition states,
“Such suppression of a vital and legally relevant fact constitutes a deliberate attempt to mislead this court and amounts to fraud, vitiating the very foundation of their claim. The third respondent (Ms. Chandrabanu) was fully aware that her marriage on February 5, 1975, was contracted during the subsistence of his (Chandrasekaran’s) prior and legally valid marriage to M.C. Banumathi.”
The Kapoor family also questioned how the plaintiffs could challenge the property transaction after such a long delay. They pointed out that the family has been in uninterrupted possession of the land for nearly 38 years since the purchase in 1988. According to them, the suit filed in 2025 seeking cancellation of the sale deeds is legally unsustainable.
They also highlighted that Chandrasekaran himself had never raised any dispute regarding the sale of the property during his lifetime. Chandrasekaran passed away on May 29, 1995. Additionally, the Kapoor family informed the court that the two children who are now plaintiffs in the case had attained adulthood long ago—Sivakami in 1995 and Natarajan in 1999.
On the other hand, the plaintiffs rejected the allegations made by the Kapoor family and defended their legal claim over the land. They told the court that the Kapoor family had no authority to question the legitimacy of Chandrabanu’s marriage or to label her children as illegitimate.
The plaintiffs also challenged the legality of the property transaction itself. They argued that the sale deeds executed in 1988 were unlawful and claimed that the Kapoor family had obtained a ‘patta’ for the land only recently through fraudulent methods.
Further explaining the delay in filing the suit, the plaintiffs said they came to know about the property and the alleged illegal transactions only in 2023. After learning about the situation, they decided to approach the court and file the civil suit in 2025.
Earlier, the additional district court in Chengalpattu had examined the Kapoor family’s request to reject the lawsuit at the preliminary stage. However, on December 1, 2025, the court dismissed that request. The district court held that the dispute involved several factual issues that could only be properly examined through a full trial and therefore the plaint could not be rejected at the initial stage.
Challenging that decision of the district court, the Kapoor family has now filed the present civil revision petition before the Madras High Court. The High Court will hear the matter on March 26, 2026, while the proceedings in the lower court will remain stayed until then.
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