NEW DELHI: In a contemporary twist within the authorized battle over the property of the late Sona Comstar chairman Sunjay Kapur, household matriarch Rani Kapur has moved the Delhi Excessive Court docket looking for the cancellation of the Rani Kapur Household Belief, which holds a major stake within the auto-parts maker.
In her newest plea, reviewed by Mint, the 80-year-old alleges that the belief was created via fraud to strip her of her property and management over the Sona Group. She has accused Sunjay Kapur’s widow, Priya Kapur, of being the “chief mastermind” behind the transfer and of rapidly taking management of key group corporations after her son’s dying.
Rani Kapur has claimed that after struggling a stroke in 2017, she was coerced into signing a number of paperwork, together with clean papers, beneath the guise of routine administrative work. These, she says, had been later misused to switch her property into the belief with out her knowledgeable consent.
“The Defendant No.1 to 9 have collectively dedicated numerous acts of forgery, exercised undue affect, manipulated, coerced and impersonated the Plaintiff at completely different instances so as to defraud the Plaintiff of all her and her remaining relations’ property, legacy and belongings, in a way in order that the whole household legacy now vests with one department of the household to the exclusion of the remaining,” the plea states.
The Rani Kapur Household Belief owns 65% of Aureus Funding Personal Ltd, which in flip holds a 28% promoter stake in Sona Comstar (listed as Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd). In 2019, the belief had knowledgeable Sona Comstar, then a privately held firm, that its sole beneficiary was Sunjay Kapur.
The case is the newest chapter within the Kapur household feud, which surfaced publicly in September final 12 months when Sunjay Kapur’s youngsters from an earlier marriage, Samaira and Kiaan, challenged a will within the Delhi Excessive Court docket that allegedly leaves his complete property to his third spouse, Priya Kapur. The household has been embroiled in disputes since Sunjay Kapur’s dying on 12 June 2025.
The battle centres on Sunjay Kapur’s estimated ₹30,000 crore property. Samaira and Kiaan are looking for a one-fifth share every of their father’s private property, claiming they had been repeatedly denied a replica of the desire, which reportedly leaves the whole property to Priya Kapur.
Court docket filings point out that the desire surfaced throughout a gathering at Delhi’s Taj Mansingh Resort on 30 July, attended by Priya Kapur, her attorneys, and executives of Aureus Funding. It’s unclear whether or not the desire has been formally registered.
In her petition, Rani Kapur stated that she was the only real inheritor of her late husband, Dr. Surinder Kapur, the founding father of the Sona Group, beneath a will probated by the Bombay Excessive Court docket in 2016, which vested all shares, companies, and properties in her. She alleged that, exploiting her unwell well being and dependence after her stroke, her son and Priya Kapur obtained her signatures on paperwork with out explaining their objective.
She claimed these signatures had been later used to create and function the Rani Kapur Household Belief by way of a belief deed dated 26 October 2017, which she stated she by no means knowingly signed. When copies of the deed surfaced in 2025, she alleges a forensic examination revealed solid signatures, with completely different variations of the deed containing inconsistent signatures.
Rani Kapur additionally alleged that between 2017 and 2021, her shareholding and management over Sona Group corporations and different property had been quietly transferred into the belief and associated entities with out her data.
Though she is listed as a settlor and trustee on paper, the belief names Sunjay Kapur, Priya Kapur and their youngsters as beneficiaries, excluding her and her daughters’ department of the household, which she says is opposite to her late husband’s will. She has additionally accused Priya Kapur of transferring swiftly after Sunjay Kapur’s dying to take over financial institution accounts, firm boards, and voting rights, allegedly utilizing her digital signatures and passing resolutions with out her consent.
Rani Kapur has requested the court docket to declare the belief and its deed null and void, cancel the belief, restore all property and shareholdings to their pre-2017 place, and order a full accounting. She has additionally sought interim instructions to freeze the belief’s operations, stop asset gross sales or transfers, keep the established order within the Sona Group, and protect digital information.
