The Delhi High Court on Monday heard explosive claims regarding the will of the late industrialist Sunjay Kapur, heir to the Sona BLW automotive empire. Allegations surfaced that the will was digitally fabricated to divert his enormous ₹30,000-crore estate entirely to his third wife, Priya Kapur.
What began as a private inheritance dispute has now turned into a courtroom drama, with lawyers for Kapur’s children from his second marriage—Samaira and Kiaan Kapur, whose mother is Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor—accusing a deliberate digital forgery involving manipulated files, secret WhatsApp groups, and forged signature trails. The case could redefine how digital evidence is treated in India’s inheritance laws and alter the fate of a vast family fortune.
Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, representing the children, argued that the contested will “was not the product of the deceased’s hand or mind” but was instead a “manufactured document” created and edited on someone else’s computer. Metadata shows the will originated on the device of Nitin Sharma, who has no formal ties to Kapur. “Who prepared this will?” Jethmalani questioned.
“The file was created and modified on Sharma’s system on March 17, 2025—the very day Sunjay was vacationing in Goa with his son Kiaan. It defies logic that he would rewrite his will on holiday while disinheriting his own children.
”Further, the Word document was converted into a PDF on March 24 at 10:06 a.m., just hours before a WhatsApp group named Family Office IC was formed to circulate it among a select group including Sharma, Priya Kapur, and Dinesh Agarwal, a director at Aureus Investment Pvt Ltd, part of the Sona BLW promoter group.
Jethmalani highlighted that Priya Kapur’s immediate response to the document was a casual “Okay, thank you!” indicating acknowledgment rather than surprise or consent, suggesting the deceased was not involved.
The lawyer pointed to multiple unexplained edits before and after Kapur’s death, describing a “secretive and coordinated effort.” The will surfaced only 13 days after the cremation, with no clear explanation of its custody or storage. “The entire chain of custody is broken,” Jethmalani said.
Priya Kapur’s lawyers maintain that “unimpeachable electronic evidence” supports the will’s authenticity. For Samaira and Kiaan, however, this battle has become a larger fight for truth—pitting memory against metadata in one of India’s most closely watched inheritance disputes.
