India, July 29 -- The sudden death of Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd (Sona Comstar) chairman Sunjay Kapur on June 12 in London has led to several top-level changes in the company and sparked a dispute with his mother, Rani Kapur, who alleges an attempt to "usurp the family legacy".

In a July 24 letter to the Sona Comstar board, Rani accused the firm of exploiting the moment to "wrest control. "Some people chose this as an opportune time to wrest control and usurp the family legacy", while the family was still mourning Sunjay's sudden demise, she had said.

In recent days, the board of Sona Comstar unanimously appointed Jeffery Mark Overly as chairman on June 23 and appointed Sunjay's wife, Priya Sachdev Kapur, as a non-executive directo...