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Fresh testimony before the Delhi High Court on Thursday has pushed the long-running high-profile dispute over Sunjay Kapur’s estate into even murkier territory, with arguments presented by Shradha Suri Marwah’s counsel, Anuradha Dutt inadvertently sharpening questions about the legitimacy of the Will submitted by Kapur’s third wife, Priya Sachdev Kapur. Instead of providing clarity, Suri’s shifting statements and the disjointed timeline she offered appear to have intensified concerns that the document might not reflect Kapur’s true intentions—raising the stakes for his biological children, Samaira and Kiaan, who stand entirely excluded from the Will Priya seeks to enforce.

At the centre of the latest twist is Suri’s acknowledgment that she had incorrectly informed the court about how she first received the Will. What she had earlier attributed to Priya Kapur, she now says was actually sent by one Dinesh Agarwal on 14 June—an email that purportedly attached the Will and instructed her to act as executor. Yet, according to Suri, Agarwal later claimed he had “mistakenly” attached Kapur’s trust deed instead and re-sent the alleged Will later the same day.

The sequence is highly irregular. Legal experts say that such confusion over attachments—combined with Agarwal’s unexplained authority to appoint an executor—raises more red flags than answers. Why would an executor learn of her own appointment not from the testator, but from an intermediary, after his death? And why only one day before the supposed execution of the Will?

Far from establishing her neutrality, Suri’s own account heightens skepticism. She admits she did not know she was named executor, did not have access to a lawyer despite asking for one, and had no clarity on the Will’s contents or its legitimacy. Her argument that she was “trying to figure out what was going on” suggests an executor thrust into place post-facto rather than one entrusted by Sunjay Kapur himself.

More troubling is Suri’s claim that on 24 June—two weeks after Agarwal’s involvement—Priya Kapur assured her that the document was Sunjay’s “last and only Will.” The insistence stands in contrast to Priya’s own confirmation on 11 August that she is merely the sole nominee, not the beneficiary, of Sunjay’s assets. In Indian succession law, nominees hold assets only in trust; they do not inherit them. That distinction, now publicly acknowledged by Priya, sharply undermines her efforts to claim full ownership and casts further doubt on the motivations behind presenting such a Will.

If the Will is ultimately deemed invalid, Sunjay’s estate would be distributed equally among all Class I heirs—crucially, including his children Samaira and Kiaan. Suri’s counsel conceded this in court, hinting at the gravity of the risk should the document fail judicial scrutiny.

The inconsistencies do not end there. Suri’s request for indemnity from Priya Kapur—an extraordinary move for an executor confident in a Will’s legitimacy—suggests deep apprehension about the document she is defending. Her admission that she never saw the need to probate the Will only reinforces the perception that proper legal processes were bypassed. Taken together, the contradictions in Suri’s testimony and the revelation of Priya’s status as merely a nominee add significant weight to the growing suspicion that the Will may have been engineered to divert Sunjay Kapur’s personal assets away from his rightful heirs. For Samaira and Kiaan Kapur, the latest courtroom disclosures strengthen the argument that their exclusion may not just be questionable—but legally unsustainable.

With each hearing, what was once a family dispute now increasingly resembles a case study in contested inheritance, procedural opacity and shifting narratives. The central question—whether Sunjay Kapur’s true wishes were ever documented at all—remains as unsettled as ever, and Thursday’s revelations only tilt the balance further toward doubt.

The inheritance dispute over industrialist Sunjay Kapur’s estate started after he succumbed to a cardiac arrest while playing polo in London on June 12, 2025, and over 47 days later, his third wife, Priya Kapur produced a Will dated March 21, 2025, that bequeaths all his personal assets solely to her—excluding his children with his second wife Karisma Kapoor, Samaira and Kiaan, and his mother, Rani Kapur. At stake is not only Sunjay Kapur’s personal estate but also the ownership of Rs 30,000 crore worth business empire of Sona BLW and its associate firms.

Samaira and Kiaan challenged the Will’s authenticity before Delhi HC. Their counsel Mahesh Jethmalani outlined significant red flags: the Will contains misspelt names, pronoun errors, Samaira’s incorrect address, contradictory statements, and repeated references to Sunjay as a “testatrix.” The children argue that Sunjay, a Harvard-educated businessman, would never approve a document filled with such basic and glaring mistakes. Compounding concerns, the Will is neither registered nor notarised, despite the family’s history of notarising important documents.

The court also focused on the Will’s digital inconsistencies, with metadata suggesting it may not have originated from any device associated with Sunjay. When questioned, Priya’s counsel Rajiv Nayyar attempted to justify errors by claiming the document was based on a template from Rani Kapur’s Will, raising concerns as to how a supposedly derivative document could end up unnotarised and factually flawed.

Efforts by Priya’s team to impose NDAs and confidentiality restrictions were discouraged by the bench, which stressed the need for transparency. The defence also resisted forensic examination demanded by Samaira and Kiaan, despite mounting irregularities.