The death of industrialist Sunjay Kapur has sparked a high-stakes battle over his Rs 30,000 crore estate — with multiple people contesting the will. Matters reached the Delhi High Court on Monday as his children levelled a litany of charges including deliberate digital manipulation of files, the existence of secret WhatsApp groups, and a forged signature trail.
Samaira and Kiaan Kapur (his children with actor Karisma Kapoor) flagged several discrepancies to allege that the document was edited digitally fabricated to divert the entire Rs 30,000-crore estate to his third wife Priya Kapur.
“This will has every hallmark of forgery. It makes no sense that Kapur, while vacationing with his son, was modifying a will saved on someone else’s device. The entire source of this document is unclear and secretive,” advocate Mahesh Jethmalani argued before Justice Jyoti Singh.
The actor had joined the high-stakes inheritance row last month on behalf of their children. The petitioners allege foul play — noting that the will was unregistered and only surfaced weeks after the death of Sunjay Kapur in mid-June. They had earlier claimed that the document (dated March 21) was deliberately withheld for nearly seven weeks before being brought to their attention during a private family meeting at the end of July. During this time, Priya Kapur had insisted that the late businessman hadleft no will.
Digital deception?
The senior lawyer argued on Monday that the will was not made by Kapur or created at his behest. He deemed it a “manufactured document” that was created and edited on another computer — citing metadata to underscore his point. According to the counsel, the document was updated on the device of one Nitin Sharma (a person with no formal connection to Sunjay Kapur) on March 17.
“Who prepared this will? The file was created and altered on Nitin Sharma’s system on March 17, 2025 — the very day Sunjay was in Goa with his son Kiaan. It defies logic that he would rewrite his will on holiday while disinheriting his own children,” he argued.
The counsel added that the Word file was converted into a PDF on March 24 at 10:06 a.m., hours before a WhatsApp group named Family Office IC was formed to circulate it among a select circle that included Sharma, Priya Kapur, and Dinesh Agarwal, a director of Aureus Investment Pvt Ltd, part of the Sona BLW promoter group.
“Immediately after the document was shared…Priya Kapur responded, ‘Okay, thank you!’ — with no surprise or hesitation. It reads like an acknowledgment of a task completed, with no endorsement from the deceased…If the will was finalised on March 21, why was it modified again three days later? There are now two versions,” Jethmalani said.
Jethmalani dubbed it an “an uncertified and unreliable document” — adding that notes at the bottom of the file said it “might be blocked because it came from another system that makes its source highly doubtful”. The senior counsel also alleged that two wills, one for the husband and another for the wife, were being prepared at the same time, but were not mutual wills, and that there was no proper explanation for this. He further questioned WhatsApp chats allegedly used to share the will, saying screenshots were taken from two different phones, and no digital evidence certificate had been submitted.