Taking an important step, the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to Rani Kapoor in the Priya Kapoor vs Rani Kapoor case. The court has directed Rani Kapoor to present her side and present her arguments on the petition filed by Priya Kapoor. This order has been given to ensure a fair hearing of the case, so that the court can reach a decision only after understanding the arguments of both the parties.
Priya Kapoor had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court, seeking specific legal relief or intervention against Rani Kapoor. Considering the seriousness of this matter, the court has decided to hear the other side also, following the principle of natural justice.
Justice Mini Pushkarna issued notice to Rani Kapoor on an application by Priya Kapoor, seeking initiation of action against her for perjury under the Indian Civil Protection Code, and asked her to file her reply. The application, filed during the trial, alleged that there was “concrete evidence” such as affidavits and photographs which showed that Rani Kapoor had made a “knowingly false statement on affidavit” that she had not signed the RK Family Trust Deed or read its contents.
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The court also issued notice to Rani Kapoor on Priya’s plea in which she had sought dismissal of the case on charges of concealment of material. It alleges that there was a gross abuse of process by the plaintiff which amounted to a fraud on the court. In the suit filed against her daughter-in-law Priya Kapoor and others, Rani Kapoor has sought that her alleged family trust be declared “invalid”.
In her petition, Rani Kapoor (80) has said that “forged, fraudulent” documents were used for the trust formed in her name in October 2017. He has sought a direction to permanently restrain the defendants – including his daughter-in-law Priya Kapoor and grandchildren – from using the “RK Family Trust” in any way or acting in support of it. Rani Kapoor’s plea states that she was the sole beneficiary of her late husband Surinder Kapoor’s entire estate, and that she was “systematically defrauded” when the property was transferred to the “RK Family Trust”.
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Surinder Kapoor was the promoter of various businesses including ‘Sona Group of Companies’. The petition claims that Sanjay never confirmed to Rani Kapoor till his death that he had indeed been deprived of all his rights, properties and inheritance nor provided her a copy of the alleged ‘RK Family Trust’.
“Through a complex web of illegal transactions carried out by defendants Nos. 1 to 9 (Priya and others) in unfortunate connivance with Sanjay Kapoor, late son of the plaintiff (Rani), all the properties of the plaintiff were transferred without her knowledge to a fraudulent trust named ‘RK Family Trust’,” the plea alleged. Sanjay Kapoor died after fainting during a polo match in England on June 12. It is said that he had suffered a heart attack.
A petition by Sanjay’s ex-wife Karisma Kapoor’s two children challenging the authenticity of their late father’s alleged will is also pending in the High Court in which the children have accused Priya Kapoor of being greedy. The next hearing in the case will be in March.