A division bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka asked Singhania to file an affidavit on the status of properties mentioned in the family settlement by June 22.
The judges were hearing an appeal filed by four grandchildren of Vijaypat Singhania against a single judge order of August 2015 of the Bombay High Court, that refused interim relief to them in a suit they filed seeking share in the family property.
The appellants had sought a direction to Vijaypat Singhania to not deal with any property included in the 1998 family settlement, which he and his estranged son Madhupati Singhania had entered in.
Madhupati Singhania's children had filed the suit in February 2015, staking claim to "their share of the family property".
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They sought a direction from the High Court restraining any further transactions in the family assets, estimated at over Rs 1,000 crore.
These assets include those listed in the family settlement of 1998, about two lakh shares of the flagship company Raymonds Ltd which were in Madhupati Singhania's name, Madhupati's 1/24th share in JK Bankers, the company from where the entire business started, and a few other assets listed in the grandchildren's own name.
However, Vijaypat Singhania's counsel opposed their plea on the grounds that if the property was a joint family property, then a minor's consent or a court order is not required to deal with the "undivided property".