The Birla family today produced the last will of Rameshwardas Birla""father of M P Birla""which appointed Ashok Birla as one of the executors and trustees of the will. |
The document was produced in court to negate the dispute angle brought forward by the Lodha camp. Lodha's counsel had produced a letter written by Ashok Birla to M P Birla, about their bitter relationship. |
However, P K Ray, counsel for Yashovardhan Birla, son of Ashok Birla, said the will of Rameshwardas Birla showed a close relationship. |
The will was dated February 1, 1973. The executors and trustees were M P Birla and R D Birla's daughter-in-law, Gopakumari Birla. The Birla counsel argued the ultimate objective of Rameshwardas Birla's will was charity, which was the same as in the mutual wills of M P Birla and Priyamvada Birla of 1981 and their mutual wills of 1982. |
The only deviation was in the case of Priyamvada Birla's will of 1999, which bequeathed property to Rajendra Singh Lodha. |
Ray also showed documents of Kalyan Nidhi Trust with a corpus of Rs 1 crore, created by M P Birla, in which Yashovardhan Birla was the managing trustee. The relationship between Ashok Birla and M P Birla had no bearing on M P Birla's relationship with Yashovardhan, Ray said. |
Ray pointed out Yashovardhan had performed the last rites of both M P Birla and Priyamvada Birla. |