Husband willing assets to wife not suspicious: Priya Kapur opposes Karsima Kapoor plea in Delhi High Court

Priya Sachdev Kapur told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that there is nothing suspicious about her late husband Sunjay Kapur bequeathing his assets to her, as this has been a healthy tradition in the family over the years.

Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar appeared for Kapur and stated that even Sunjay Kapur's father had bequeathed his assets to his wife.

“There is nothing suspicious about a husband bequeathing his assets to his wife. This was the case in my father-in-law’s will as well. This is a healthy tradition,” Nayar said. 

He stressed that it is Karisma Kapoor who has created suspicions over Sunjay Kapur’s will because her lawyers deliberately did not show email exchanges between the witnesses and the executor. 

“If you show the documents properly, there will be nothing suspicious. The will is in my custody, I handed it over to Defendant No. 4 [Executor Shraddha Suri Marwah]. Defendant No 4’s email acknowledging the receipt is also there,” he said. 

Nayar was making submissions before Justice Jyoti Singh, who was hearing the interim injunction application filed by Karisma Kapoor’s two children to restrain Priya Kapur from creating any third-party rights over their father Sunjay Kapur’s assets. 

In the main suit, the siblings have accused stepmother Priya Kapur (the third wife of Sunjay Kapur) of forging Sunjay Kapur's will and trying to gain total control of the property. 

Karisma Kapoor and Sunjay Kapur were married for 13 years, between 2003 and 2016, before getting divorced. They have a son and a daughter together. Sunjay later married Priya. 

Central to the dispute is a will dated March 21, 2025, which allegedly leaves Sunjay Kapur’s entire personal estate to Priya Sachdeva Kapur.

Today, Nayar also challenged Karisma Kapoor’s assertion that the two attesting witnesses to the will have received pecuniary benefits after Kapur’s death. 

"They were employees and continue to be employees. There is no extra benefit at all. One of them has been made a non-executive director, without any remunerative benefits. He is an employee who has been given some executive director post without any remuneration,” he said. 

The argument that the will does not have Sunjay Kapur’s signature is to be laughed at, he said.

“Any blind man can see that there is a signature."

He added that both Sunjay Kapur and Priya Kapur executed their wills on the same day and that the registration of the document is not mandatory. 

The High Court will continue hearing the arguments tomorrow.