Over the past few days, a legal fight that has been quietly growing in the background got a bit louder. Karisma Kapoor, the Bollywood actor well known for many hit films, has been asked by India’s Supreme Court of India to respond to something unusual.
Here’s the twist: this isn’t about a new case against Karisma, it goes all the way back to her divorce from late businessman Sunjay Kapoor in 2016. That divorce was finalised years ago and wrapped up privately between them. But now the divorce papers themselves have become part of a fresh legal dispute.
The reason? Priya Kapur, who was married to Sunjay after Karisma, has asked the Supreme Court to allow her to see the original divorce documents, things like the petitions, agreements and settlement details from that 2016 case. She believes those papers could help her in a big inheritance dispute involving Sunjay’s estate.
The Supreme Court didn’t say Karisma has done anything wrong. It simply issued her a notice, a formal request to respond and gave her two weeks to file an official reply explaining why the confidential divorce records should or should not be shared.
Karisma’s lawyers have already said they think the request is too intrusive and should be thrown out, after all, that divorce was settled years ago and involved private family matters.
So right now:
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Karisma needs to respond to the court in writing.
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Priya Kapur is pushing to see the divorce files to help her in the inheritance case.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether these old, private documents can be shared with someone who wasn’t part of the original case.
That’s why Karisma Kapoor is in the headlines again, not for a film, but because her old divorce has suddenly become legally relevant again.