Kapur family feud deepens as Rani Kapur moves Delhi HC to scrap Sona Comstar trust
NEW DELHI: In a new development in the legal battle over the estate of Sona Comstar’s late chairman Sunjay Kapur, family matriarch Rani Kapur has approached the Delhi High Court seeking cancellation of the Rani Kapur Family Trust, which holds a significant stake in the auto parts maker.
In his final defense reviewed by MintThe 80-year-old man claims that this trust was created fraudulently to take away his assets and control over the Sona Group. He accused Sunjay Kapur’s widow Priya Kapur of being the “mastermind” behind this move and quickly taking control of key group companies after her son’s death.
Rani Kapur alleged that after she suffered a stroke in 2017, she was forced to sign numerous documents, including blank papers, under the guise of routine administrative work. He says these were then misused to transfer his assets to the trust without his informed consent.
“Defendant 1 to 9 collectively committed various acts of fraud, exercised undue influence, manipulated, coerced and impersonated the plaintiff at different times to defraud the Plaintiff out of his and his remaining family members’ property, inheritance and belongings such that the entire family inheritance now belonged to one branch of the family to the exclusion of the rest,” the plea states.
Rani Kapur Family Trust owns 65% of Aureus Investment Private Ltd, which in turn has a 28% promoter stake in Sona Comstar (listed as Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd). In 2019, the foundation had informed Sona Comstar, then a private company, that its sole beneficiary was Sunjay Kapur.
The case is the latest chapter in the Kapur family feud, which broke out in September last year when Sunjay Kapur’s children from his previous marriage, Samaira and Kiaan, challenged a will in the Delhi High Court that allegedly left all his property to his third wife Priya Kapur. The family has been at odds since Sunjay Kapur’s death on June 12, 2025.
Conflict centers on Sunjay Kapur’s predictions ₹30,000 crore property. Samaira and Kiaan are seeking a fifth share of their father’s personal assets, claiming that they were repeatedly denied a copy of the will, meaning the entire inheritance was left to Priya Kapur.
Court records show that the will was unveiled during a meeting at the Taj Mansingh Hotel in Delhi on July 30, attended by Priya Kapur, her lawyers and Aureus Investment executives. It is unclear whether the will was officially recorded.
In her petition, Rani Kapur appealed to her late husband, Dr. Sona Group’s founder. He said Surinder Kapur was his sole heir under a will approved by the Bombay High Court in 2016, under which all shares, businesses and properties were transferred to him. He claimed that his son and Priya Kapur took advantage of his poor health and addiction after his stroke and obtained signatures on the documents without disclosing their purpose.
He alleged that these signatures were later used to create and operate the Rani Kapur Family Foundation through a trust deed dated October 26, 2017, which he said he never knowingly signed. He claimed that when copies of the deed emerged in 2025, forensic examination revealed forged signatures and that different versions of the deed contained inconsistent signatures.
Rani Kapur also alleged that between 2017 and 2021, her shares and control over Sona Group companies and other assets were quietly transferred to the foundation and related entities without her knowledge.
Although she is listed as settlor and trustee on paper, the trust names Sunjay Kapur, Priya Kapur and their children as beneficiaries, excluding her and their daughters’ part of the family, which it says is against her late husband’s will. He also accused Priya Kapur of quickly taking over Sunjay Kapur’s bank accounts, company boards and voting rights after his death, allegedly using his digital signatures and making decisions without his consent.
Rani Kapur requested the court to declare the trust and foundation null and void, cancel the trust, restore all assets and shareholders to their pre-2017 status and order a full accounting. It also sought interim orders to freeze the foundation’s operations, prevent sales or transfers of assets, maintain the status quo at Sona Group and preserve electronic records.
