Karisma Kapoor’s lawyer says Sunjay Kapur’s Rs 30,000 cr estate ‘media creation’; she refused Portuguese citizenship offer for this reason: ‘Sunjay wanted it for…’

Questioning the purported will, Mandhira said, “We are asking for any information that we can get. My mother has written to a few people in the company asking for the will, autopsy, for everything and it has been told that her email is compromised, so they have not responded to her.” She added, “So when we found out about this will, it was a shock to us as well because we had no idea that there was a will in the first place.”

‘Karisma Kapoor doesn’t want anything for herself’

Karisma’s lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani also spoke about the legal battle and said, “Karisma Kapoor doesn’t want anything for herself, the entire aim of this litigation is to secure her children in the manner in which her late ex-husband wanted them to be secure, which is as per a trust deed, which dealt with his assets in India, his corporate assets in India, and by and large his assets abroad, for which there was a will, which was never disclosed and neither has been a subject matter of probate, nor is it registered. So the battle is only about the assets which the will covers and not about the assets which the trust covers.”

He explained why valuation of Sunjay Kapur’s personal assets can’t be done at this point, he said, “Rs 30,000 crore is a press creation, it is not under the will. We don’t know what the assets under the will are, because they are all Sunjay’s personal assets, and we haven’t had any disclosure in the will or any disclosure from other beneficiary of the will or the executive. So we don’t know what his personal assets consist of or what’s the valuation. Rs 30,000 crore is maybe his both overseas assests and his assets in India. We haven’t done a valuation because, frankly speaking, we can’t make the valuation because we are at a disadvantage of not having the entire data regarding his assets.”

‘Karisma and Sunjay’s kids are not at the mercy of Mrs Kapur’

Questioning Priya’s claim of giving Rs 1900 crore to Karisma and Sunjay’s kids, he said, “If the estate is Rs 30,000 crore and they are only getting Rs 1900 crore… actually, there are only five class one heirs – mother, 3 children and Priya – why is she not disclosing a will, if it’s genuine. The children are not getting whatever they are getting at the mercy of Mrs Kapur. These are assets of Sunjay Kapur, nobody is doing us a favour. Is Priya Sachdev going to forsake the remaining Rs 28,000 crore that goes to her, what kind of a rubbish is this? We are trying to fight for the children’s rightful inheritance.”

When asked about march 21 will in which sunjay left all his estate to Priya, Jethmalani said, “We haven’t seen the will so can’t say but now the court has compelled a disclosure. So, we will know what this will is about.”

Questions on Karisma and kids’ Portuguese citizenship and suspicion on the will

When asked about Sunjay trying for Portuguese citizenship for Karisma and their kids, the lawyer explained how this very fact casts suspicion on the will. He explained, “That’s one of the suspicious circumstances because there is clear evidence that during the end of May this year, which is supposed to be two months after the will was actually executed, he was trying to get a Portuguese citizenship certainly for his children, and possibly for Karisma Kapoor. She was told that she will have to give up Indian citizenship if she took up Portuguese citizenship and she refused.”

He added, “But certainly, he was toying with the idea of Portuguese citizenship for his two children for the reason that properties overseas would be exempted from inheritance tax and all 3 of his kids – one from Mrs Priya Kapur and two from Karisma Kapoor – all three of them would be saved from inheritance tax because Portugal doesn’t have an inheritance tax regime. So, if in May 2025, you are trying to create citizenship for your children to avoid inheritance tax of overseas property, it is a little surprising that you had already executed a will in March 2025, in which all the overseas properties are devolved to Mrs Priya Sachdeva and none to the children, so that’s a suspicious circumstance.”

According to Bar and Bench, Priya Sachdev’s lawyer responded to Samaira and Kiaan’s claims, stating that they have already received assets worth Rs 1,900 crore, and that they ‘haven’t been left on the streets.’ However, sources state that the control of Sunjay’s assets remains with Priya Kapur under the RK family trust, and that the children currently have no access to the Rs 1,900 crore inheritance.

Meanwhile, Rani Kapur’s lawyer, senior advocate Vaibhav Gaggar, stated that the “real fight” was between Karisma Kapoor and Priya Sachdev. “This fight is really more between Karisma Kapoor and Priya Sachdev — whether there is a will or there is no will etc. Rani Kapur does get impacted by it, but she will file a response, and you will know her stand,” he told ANI.