The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed late Bollywood actress Sridevi’s family to pursue mediation for settlement of rival claims over a land parcel in Chennai that came into her possession under a 1988 sale deed.
One of Mudaliar’s sons, Nithyanandam, later executed a sale deed in favour of Sridevi. Singhvi said filing the suit was an abuse of law since Chandrasekaran was one of the sons of MC Sambanda Mudaliar who possessed over 206 acres of land in Sholinganallur village. Of this, he retained only 2.7 acres and released the remaining land in favour of the joint family. This 2.7-acre land parcel was enjoyed by the Mudaliar’s family. In its April 20 verdict, the high court held that the persons who filed the suit were not the Class-1 legal heirs of Chandrasekaran and questioned why the suit was being filed after so many years.
The high court observed that it was “totally unbelievable” that they came to know about the said land purchase in the name of Sridevi only in 2023 when the title was to be changed to the name of Kapoor and his daughters following the actor’s death.
After the actor’s death in 2018, her husband and Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor transferred the 2.7-acre plot in his name and in the names of his two daughters, Jhanvi and Khushi. Parties are directed to get in touch with the mediator,” the bench said, posting the matter for hearing on December 18. However, three people challenged Kapoor’s ownership of the land, claiming to be legal heirs of MC Chandrasekaran, who originally possessed the plot. We will give you a good mediator. “Without prejudice to the rights and contentions of the parties, we will appoint a retired high court judge.
A bench of justices KV VIswanathan and Arun Palli, which took up the case, on Wednesday said, “We want to know if you can sit down and sort out the matter…
