Birla family to challenge Harsh Vardhan Lodha's reinstatement in SC

The Birla family, which has been in a 16-year legal battle with the Lodhas to wrest control of the Rs 5,000-crore Birla Estate, has decided to challenge in the Supreme Court the reinstatement of Harsh Vardhan Lodha (pictured) as a director in MP Birla Group companies.
 

The decision of the Birlas comes in spite of a favourable verdict from a two-judge division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, which on Monday had asked the probate court to hear the appellant MP Birla Group companies afresh, which was one of their key petitions.
 

The Bench had ordered the probate court to