Karisma Kapoor’s Children Approach Delhi HC Seeking Share In Late Father Sunjay Kapur’s Rs 30,000 Crore Estate

The death of business tycoon and Sona Comstar chairman Sunjay Kapur has triggered a spiraling inheritance battle over his estimated Rs 30,000 crore estate. Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor’s children have now moved the Delhi High Court seeking their share in their father’s assets.

In a civil suit filed through their legal guardian and mother, Karisma Kapoor, the children have accused their stepmother Priya Kapur, Sunjay’s third wife, of forging his will and attempting to seize complete control of the sprawling business empire.

Notably, Karisma Kapoor married Sunjay Kapur in 2003. The couple had two children: daughter Samaira, born in 2005, and son Kiaan, born in 2011. Their marriage ended after 13 years, with a mutual consent divorce in 2016, under which Karisma retained custody of the children.

The children, represented through their mother, have sought partition of the estate, rendition of accounts, and a permanent injunction against the defendants.

According to the suit, the defendants include Priya Kapur, her minor son Azarius, Sunjay’s mother Rani Kapur, and the purported executor of the will, Shradha Suri Marwah. It alleges that the children were excluded from the estate. The suit adds that Priya initially denied the existence of any will and claimed that all assets were held in the R.K. Family Trust. Later, however, she produced a will dated March 21, 2025, which allegedly bequeaths Sunjay Kapur’s entire personal estate to her.

The said will is now the centre of the controversy. The children contend that Priya, along with associates Dinesh Agarwal and Nitin Sharma, deliberately suppressed the will for over seven weeks before revealing it at a family meeting on July 30, 2025.

Calling the will “forged and fabricated”, the suit highlights several suspicious circumstances: the original has not been shown to them, nor has any copy been provided. The children contend before the court that Priya is attempting to “usurp full control” of the estate to the exclusion of other legal heirs.

In their plea, the children have maintained that they shared a cordial relationship with their father and that he had assured them of their financial security. They claim that Sunjay had initiated ventures in their names, acquired assets for their benefit, and named them as beneficiaries.

The children have therefore asked the court to declare them Class I heirs and to award each a one-fifth share in the estate. As interim relief, they have sought freezing of all personal assets belonging to Sunjay Kapur until the matter is resolved.

Sunjay Kapur died suddenly on June 12, 2025, after collapsing during a polo match in England. While reports initially suggested he suffered an anaphylactic shock after swallowing a bee, the coroner ruled his death a natural one arising from underlying heart disease. As far as Karisma Kapoor is concerned, reports have revealed that she has no claim in the will.

Case Title: Ms. Samaira Kapur & Anr. v. Mrs. Priya Kapur & Ors.

Hearing: Expected 

Date: 9 September 2025

With Inputs from the Economic Times