What is the story about?
Sridevi’s East Coast Road (ECR) property in Chennai has become subject to a major dispute. As per the latest development, petitioners MC Sivakami and MC Natarajan
approached the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court's order, which rejected their suit on an application by the late actress’ husband, Boney Kapoor and daughters Janhvi and Khushi Kapoor. The Supreme Court has issued notice to Boney, Janhvi and Khushi on the petition and ordered a status quo till the next date of hearing.
Supreme Court orders status quo
The legal matter surfaced after MC Sivakami, her brother MC Natarajan, and their mother Chandrabhanu claimed a share in the land owned by Sridevi and sought to declare 4 sale deeds, through which the actress and her sister had acquired the 4.7-acre property, as null and void. They have claimed that the sale deeds were fraudulent and that they had a share in the property since it belonged to their paternal grandfather.
What is Sridevi's property dispute case all about?
In May this year, a Bar and Bench report revealed that the Madras High Court dismissed the plea and overturned an earlier order passed by a Chengalpattu court. The case titled Boney Kapoor vs C Sivakami followed the plaintiffs' claim that they were the alleged legal heirs of late MC Chandrasekaran. MC Sivakami, MC Natarajan and Chandrabhanu also questioned the validity of the 1988 sale deeds. They further alleged the sellers did not have lawful ownership of the property when it was sold to Sridevi, her mother, and sister.
In response to this, Boney, Janhvi and Khushi challenged the plaintiffs' suit in the High Court under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Their counsel argued that Chandrasekaran, who died in 1995, had not disputed the sales deeds when he was alive and the plaintiffs were not recognised as his Class I legal heirs. The plaintiffs filed their suit in 2025.
Boney, in 2025, explained in court that the property was purchased by Sridevi in 1988. The land originally belonged to M.C. Sambanda Mudaliar, who had three sons and two daughters. In 1960, the family mutually agreed to the division of the property. Sridevi purchased the property only after verifying the legal documents and duly registering the sale deed. The filmmaker claimed that three individuals contended that they had an undivided shared over the property by claiming to be the second wife and two children of one of the three sons of Mr Mudaliar.
In addition to this, they obtained a legal heirship certificate from the Tambaram Tahsildar in 2005, and Boney questioned the jurisdiction of the revenue official to issue such a certificate when the family of the land owner had resided in Mylapore and not in Tambaram.
The petitioner further noted that the claims of the second wife’s marriage in 1975 could be false as the first wife died in 1999. It was stated that the three individuals could not be classified either as Class-I or Class-II legal heirs under the Hindu Succession Act.
