Film producer Boney Kapoor moves Madras High Court over dispute involving late wife-actor Sridevi’s Chennai property

Famous filmmaker Boney Kapoor approached the Supreme Court of Madras, claiming that he claimed an illegal claim on an immovable property purchased by his wife and senior actor A. Sridevi (dead) at East Coast Road (ECR) in Chennai in 1988.

Justice N. Anand Venkatesh directed Tambaram Taluk Topsardar to take decisions within four weeks to cancel a “fraudulent dıl legal legacy certificate given by the filmmaker in favor of three negativity by the filmmaker.

The orders were accepted by the producer to the Chengalpattu collector and Tambaram Taluk Toplisdar on April 22, 2025, while eliminating a written petition seeking an direction to destroy a representation to cancel the legal allied certificate.

Explaining the background of the case, Mr. Kapoor told the court that his wife had purchased property on April 19, 1988, and since then, he and his family members had the absolute property and enjoyment of the property, which is currently used as a farmhouse.

The petition also told the court that the land originally belonged to a person named Mc Sambanda Mudaliar, who had three sons and two daughters. On February 14, 1960, family members entered a mutual regulation regarding the division of the property between them.

It was based on this agreement, which Sridevi bought the property and registered the sales deed duly. However, suddenly, three people claimed that one of the three sons of Mr. Mudaliar had a second wife and two children, and began to claim that they had been shared on the property.

The petition stated that the plaintiff received a legal inheritance certificate from Tambaram Toplotdar in 2005 and questioned the authority of the income official to give such a certificate when he resided in Mylapore, not in Tambaram, the family of the original land owner.

Furthermore, the second spouse claimed that he had married on February 5, 1975, and said that the first spouse could not be accepted as a legal marriage since he died on June 24, 1999. Therefore, he said that three people could not be classified as class-I or Class-II legal heirs under the Hindu Solurism Law.

Mr. Kapoor, who complained that the trio complained that he had created a lot of problems to fulfill the demands on the property on the basis of the “fraudulent” legal legacy certificate to the income officials by starting more than one civil trial and called on the authorities to cancel the earliest certificate.