The truce governing the billionaire Hinduja family was thrown into doubt in a London court after lawyers for the patriarch Srichand said the dispute between Gopichand Hinduja and his niece remained.
The lawyer said there were lawsuits and "threatened lawsuits" between members of the family, raising the prospect the Hinduja family, whose business spans sectors including banking, chemicals and healthcare, faces further litigation.
In the past the four Hinduja brothers had always presented a united front. But, after the details of the court proceedings emerged it showed that there was a great divide.
India's billionaire Hinduja family's apparent truce over the future of its global business empire is at risk, a lawyer representing patriarch Srichand Hinduja told a London court on Monday.
The billionaire Hinduja brothers always presented a united front to the outside world, four musketeers who espoused a business philosophy that everything belonged to everyone.
Britain’s richest family oversaw an Anglo-Indian business empire that’s lasted over a century from their shared family homes in London, Mumbai and Geneva. But, with the ailing of the patriarch Srichand, known as SP