Kalyani Group Chairman Babasaheb N Kalyani has opposed his sister Sugandha Hiremath’s attempt to amend the original declaratory suit to a partition suit.
In his reply to Sugandha Hiremath’s amendment application filed before the Civil Judge in Pune, Baba Kalyani submitted that the amendment mirrors a “malicious and bogus” partition suit filed by Hiremath’s children, Sameer and Pallavi, who are not members of the Kalyani family.
In 2012, Sugandha Hiremath filed a declaratory suit seeking to nullify three key documents – two gift deeds (2009), a memorandum of understanding (2002) and a sale indenture (2011) – while asserting her status as a coparcener in the Dr Neelkanth A Kalyani Hindu Undivided Family (NAK HUF).
The suit did not seek partition of the HUF’s assets, with Hiremath explicitly stating in her original plaint that “no cause of action for partition has arisen.”
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However, Baba Kalyani claimed that Hiremath’s recent amendment application, filed after more than a decade of legal proceedings, seeks to convert the declaratory suit into a partition suit.
It alleges the existence of a broader “Kalyani Family HUF” dating back to her grandfather, Late Annappa Narayan Kalyani (ANK), and demands the division of over 200 properties and businesses.
Baba Kalyani contends that this sudden shift is an attempt to align the present suit with separate partition suits filed by Hiremath’s children, Sameer and Pallavi, in 2024.
BNK’s reply points to earlier statements made by Hiremath in a separate partition suit of 2014 (filed by Sheetal Kalyani), where she denied the existence of HUF properties in the family and asserted that a granddaughter has no legal right to partition her grandfather’s HUF. Yet, the 2024 amendment seeks to incorporate properties she previously disavowed as HUF assets, he said.