India, Feb. 17 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday restrained the late businessman Sunjay Kapur's widow, Priya Kapur, and sister, Mandhira Kapur Smith, from making statements against each other.

"Parties are directed to exercise restraint in making any public statements against each other directly or indirectly," Justice Mini Pushkarna said in the order in Priya Kapur's defamation suit against Smith.

The suit was filed after Smith insinuated in a podcast last year that Priya and Sunjay Kapur's marriage was troubled and lacked legitimacy. Priya Kapur has also filed a criminal defamation suit over the same podcast in a Delhi court.

Priya Kapur's counsel, Maninder Singh, submitted in the high court that Smith repeatedly uploaded and circul...