Madras High Court Dismisses Property Suit Against Boney and Janhvi Kapoor

The Madras High Court has ruled in favor of filmmaker Boney Kapoor and his daughters Janhvi and Khushi Kapoor, dismissing a civil suit filed over a Chennai property originally purchased in the name of late actress Sridevi in 1988. Justice T V Thamilselvi allowed the civil revision petition in the case of Boney Kapoor vs C Sivakami, setting aside a prior Chengalpattu court order that had declined to reject the plaint.

The Disputed Property

At the center of the dispute was a 2.70-acre land parcel in Sholinganallur, Chennai. The plaintiffs — MC Sivakami, MC Natarajan, and Chandrabhanu — claimed to be legal heirs of the late MC Chandrasekaran and sought partition rights over the land. They further alleged that the 1988 sale deeds executed in favor of Sridevi, her mother, and her sister were invalid, as the sellers purportedly lacked proper title to the property.

Court Finds Claims Legally Unsustainable

The High Court sided firmly with the Kapoor family on multiple grounds. It noted the suit was filed nearly four decades after the sale deeds were executed, making it clearly barred by limitation. The court further highlighted that the legal heir certificate relied upon by the plaintiffs had already been cancelled, and that Chandrasekaran himself never challenged the transaction before his death in 1995. The plaintiffs’ claim that they only discovered the property transaction in 2023 was dismissed as “totally unbelievable.”

Calling the suit a vexatious attempt to seize the property by abusing the legal process, the court ruled that following Sridevi’s passing, the property had lawfully transferred to Boney, Janhvi, and Khushi Kapoor.