Property dispute: HC asks composer to disclose financial records of company
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has directed Sajid Khan, music composer and brother of Wajid Khan, who passed away in 2020, to submit the financial records of the Sajid-wajid LLP. The HC also directed Wajid’s wife Kamalrukh Khan to file her response by November 22. Kamalrukh had approached the HC claiming a share in the property and assets in the name of her deceased husband.
She had claimed that while the cumulative interests in the name of her husband was around ₹22 crore, Sajid had taken over all of it and was not willing to give her the share, which Wajid had willed to her and her two children.
On November 14, the single judge bench of justice R I Chagla, which heard the interim application of Kamalrukh, was informed by advocate Bahraiz Irani that the respondent had not complied with the April 7 order of the HC to disclose the returns of the firm in which the deceased had an interest. A previous HC bench had directed the respondents to file an affidavit disclosing the entire estate of the deceased along with the necessary tax returns and computation of income or sale.
The bench had also directed to submit the returns of the fir firm. The respondents were asked to furnish details of other similar entities in which the deceased had interest or share.
Senior advocate Birendra Saraf for the respondents informed the bench that there had been a disclosure of the estate of Wajid, however, he sought liberty to file an affidavit disclosing the returns of the company.
The bench allowed the same and posted the hearing to November 22.