How what is perhaps the biggest inheritance battle to rock an Indian family since the Ambanis split in 2005 is playing out.
Early last week, the news broke of a hitherto unknown battle within the Hinduja Group. A London court issued a decision allowing Vinoo Hinduja, the daughter of the patriarch of the $20 billion Hinduja Group, Srichand Hinduja, to fight a legal battle with his three younger brothers on his behalf.
Some details quickly came tumbling out—that the Hinduja brothers, for decades among the tightest knit business families in Indian business circles, had been fighting internally for five years. The court’s announcement last week marks only the beginning of what could be a long protracted legal battle, one that for now …
Varun is a Bengaluru-based journalist and former writer at The Morning Context. In his thirteen-year stint as a print journalist, he had worked with a number of publications, including Business Standard, the Financial Times, The Economic Times and Mint.
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