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Sridevi property feud: After court battles, Boney, daughters asked to try mediation
Supreme Court asks both parties to maintain status quo, says retired high court judge would be appointed to mediate in case
The Supreme Court has suggested mediation for the family of late actor Sridevi to resolve the long-running dispute over land purchased by her on Chennai’s East Coast Road.
A bench of Justices KV Viswanathan and Arun Palli issued notices to Sridevi’s producer husband Boney Kapoor and their daughters Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor on a petition filed by MC Sivakami and MC Natarajan, and directed both sides to maintain the status quo on the property.
The top court said a retired high court judge would be appointed to mediate in the case. The matter has been posted to December 18.
The order does not decide who owns the land. It only freezes the present position on transfer, construction, and possession while the Kapoor family is asked to respond and while settlement talks are tried.
What is the feud all about?
The fight is over a prime piece of property at Sholinganallur on the ECR side of the city. Court papers and reports place the dimension of the land between 4.7 and 4.77 acres when it was purchased on April 19, 1988 through four sale deeds.
The parcel most often named before the Supreme Court is 2.70 acres at Survey No. 1/1B. The buyers were Sridevi, her mother Rajeshwari and her sister Sree Latha. The seller named in later proceedings is MC Nithyananda Mudaliar, from the family of MC Sambanda Mudaliar.
Sridevi’s family has held and used the land for nearly four decades. After she died in 2018, her husband and daughters sought revenue records and Patta in their names around 2023. The claimants, on the other hand, say they discovered the 1988 sale during mutation.