The ₹30,000-crore battle over the late industrialist Sunjay Kapur’s empire has erupted into a full-blown legal thriller — complete with contradictions, missing consent, and a Will that now appears to be collapsing under its own rules. What was supposed to be Priya Kapur’s strongest weapon in court is suddenly being shredded by the very legal principles it claims to rest on.
At the centre of the chaos is one explosive allegation: the executor wasn’t just inactive — she was allegedly appointed without consent. Senior counsel Mahesh Jethmalani didn’t mince words when he told the court that the alleged Will fails its most basic test. According to the document, executor Shradha Suri Marwah was supposed to immediately take charge of Sunjay’s assets and seek probate. Not only did that never happen, Suri later wrote to Priya Kapur asking her to initiate probate — a move lawyers say flips the logic of the Will on its head.
Legal heavyweights are calling this more than a clerical hiccup. Bombay High Court senior lawyer Rahul R. Shelke said the executor’s inaction goes “to the root of enforceability,” questioning whether the Will ever existed in the form now claimed. “You cannot selectively rely on a Will,” he warned. “Either it is followed in full, or its credibility collapses.” With neither probate sought nor assets taken into custody, the alleged Will’s core instructions appear abandoned from day one.
Adding fuel to the fire is Shradha Suri’s earlier insistence that she had no idea she’d been appointed executor until she reportedly received an email from witness Dinesh Agarwal. That revelation triggered Jethmalani’s sharpest strike yet: under settled law, no executor can be appointed without consent or at least prior consultation. If Suri truly had no knowledge, he argued, it raises a giant red flag over how the document was drafted, communicated, and conveniently produced when disputes began.
For Sunjay Kapur’s children, Samaira and Kiaan, the issue is no longer just non-compliance — it’s structural collapse. Every contradiction, every missing step, and every deviation from the Will’s own mandates deepens suspicion. And in probate law, where execution and intent must march together, such failures can be fatal.
In a high-stakes showdown already loaded with corporate rivalries and family tensions, the biggest twist yet is this: the Will meant to settle the estate may end up undermining itself. As the courtroom drama intensifies, one truth is becoming harder to ignore — sometimes it’s not the signature that sinks a Will, but the silence that follows it.