Producer Boney Kapoor and his daughters Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor have filed a joint civil revision petition in the Madras High Court after a Chengalpattu district court refused to reject a plaint that claims a share in a Chennai property once owned by the late Sridevi. The family says the suit which seeks to declare four sale deeds connected to the 4.7-acre East Coast Road parcel void is legally unsustainable.
The Kapoors, through their legal documents, which they submitted to the trial court and brought again to the High Court, claim that the plaintiffs base their case on documents that were fraudulently obtained and that the case contains several major defects. The defendants include the main allegation, which claims that a second marriage establishes heirship because they will show that the marriage was actually bigamous. The defendants challenge the lawsuit's timing because the disputed sale deeds originated from 1988, and they claim that certain aspects of the case are limited by time restrictions.
A woman named Chandrabanu, together with her children M.C. Sivakami and M.C. Natarajan, filed a lawsuit claiming their paternal grandfather owned the land and that all sale deeds and patta documents should be declared invalid because they were obtained through deceit. The plaintiffs assert their right to bring a lawsuit because existing evidence requires judicial determination about their case.
When the matter came up before Justice T.V. Thamilselvi of the Madras High Court on Monday (March 16), the court listed the family’s civil revision petition for final hearing on March 26, 2026, and extended an interim stay on further proceedings in the Chengalpattu court until then. The interim order effectively pauses the district trial while the High Court considers whether the plaint should have been rejected in the first place.
The lawsuit centers around a 4.7-acre land dispute that involves a property located on Chennai's East Coast Road that allegedly existed since the late 1980s. The Kapoor family has maintained their use of the land as a farmhouse while the plaintiffs assert their ancestral rights to the property. Previous legal battles together with administrative investigations that included the Tahsildar's patta issuance create significant evidence for both parties during the court proceedings.
Boney Kapoor married Sridevi in June 1996; the couple had two daughters, Janhvi and Khushi. Sridevi died on February 24, 2018, and the property dispute has become part of continuous legal battles that involve ownership rights and alleged heirship claims to the deceased actress's estate.