NEW DELHI: Priya Sachdev Kapur has moved the Delhi excessive court docket looking for permission to file particulars of her late husband Sunjay Kapur’s property in a sealed cowl.The plea has been filed within the partition go well with by Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor and Sunjay Kapur’s two youngsters, Samaira and Kiaan Raj, who’re looking for a share of their father’s property.
The court docket had earlier directed Priya, Sunjay’s third spouse, to supply a listing of his property.Justice Jyoti Singh made the remark whereas listening to an utility moved by Sunjay Kapur’s spouse Priya Sachdev Kapur, looking for permission to file the record of his private property and liabilities in a sealed cowl with the events to be sure by confidentiality, or within the different, structure of Confidentiality Membership.“Permitting the applying could also be problematic for the straightforward motive that because the alleged beneficiary of the property, they (Karisma’s youngsters Samaira Kapur and Kiaan Raj Kapur) have a proper to query the property disclosed. So, tomorrow in the event that they should confirm and go about asking what has occurred, if they’re sure by this confidentiality membership, how will they ever defend their case?” the decide requestedSenior Advocate Shyel Trehan, showing for Priya, informed the court docket that the asset particulars contained delicate info and urged that solely two pages be positioned below confidentiality. “So far as I’m involved, it is a lot of knowledge to be in public,” Trehan submitted, including that whereas she was prepared to share the paperwork with all events, they need to stay confidential.In the meantime, the plaintiffs’ counsel contended that “banks have been wiped off, there’s nothing left within the checking account,” and argued that details about properties couldn’t be hidden. “In as far as property is anxious, the world ought to know at massive that they don’t should take care of these properties. It’s a continuing in rem. Right here they’re producing a Will in written assertion. In any other case, it’s a quotation in public. How a lot will go in sealed cowl? Then they are saying given NDA. How will I confirm?”, the counsel mentioned.The court docket will resume the listening to on the matter on Friday.This is what occurredIn her plea, Priya has sought permission to submit a listing of Sunjay Kapur’s movable and immovable property in a sealed envelope, citing cybersecurity dangers and potential misuse of delicate monetary particulars. She has additional proposed that every one events — together with Karisma Kapoor’s youngsters and Sunjay’s mom, Rani Kapur — signal a Non-Disclosure Settlement (NDA) earlier than accessing the paperwork. Alternatively, she prompt forming a “Confidentiality Membership” limiting entry to designated advocates and representatives.The applying follows the court docket’s September 10 order, which directed Priya to file a complete assertion of Sunjay Kapur’s property and liabilities as of June 12. At that listening to, Justice Jyoti Singh had additionally issued summons, set timelines for pleadings, and ordered that the purported Will of Sunjay Kapur — presently in Priya’s custody — be submitted in a sealed cowl.The partition go well with filed by Samaira and Kiaan Raj, by their mom Karisma Kapoor, seeks division of the multi-crore property, rendition of accounts, and a everlasting injunction in opposition to Priya and different members of the family. The subsequent substantive listening to is scheduled for October 9, when the court docket will contemplate the plaintiffs’ plea to restrain the defendants from promoting, alienating, or encumbering property properties.Throughout earlier hearings, Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, for the kids, questioned the authenticity of the Will, alleging it was solid and produced below “suspicious circumstances,” together with its sudden disclosure on the Taj Lodge and the executor studying of it only a day earlier than. He harassed that the unregistered Will had by no means been revealed to the household regardless of repeated assurances from Sunjay Kapur about his youngsters’s monetary safety.However, Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar, for Priya, argued that the kids have been already beneficiaries of household trusts and had lately acquired Rs 1,900 crore. “It’s not as if these persons are left on the streets. I’m a widow with a six-year-old little one. For 15 years, they have been nowhere to be seen,” he mentioned.Sunjay’s mom, Rani Kapur, represented by Senior Advocate Vaibhav Gaggar, additionally raised objections, claiming her rights below the household belief have been undermined after Priya’s marriage. Expressing concern for her grandchildren, she informed the court docket: “There’s one thing unholy occurring. I’m 80 years outdated and anxious for my grandchildren. Regardless of repeated mails, I by no means acquired a replica of the Will.”