India, July 26 -- The feud within the Kapur family-owned Sona Group escalated on Friday evening after the flagship company, Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd, said Rani Kapur, mother of late Chairman Sunjay Kapur, has not been a shareholder since 2019.

This comes after Rani Kapur wrote to the board, identifying herself as a majority shareholder and demanding that an Annual General Meeting scheduled for this afternoon be postponed.

She said she had been coerced into signing documents and questioned the decision to appoint "certain people (i.e., Priya Sachdev Kapur, her daughter-in-law)" who claimed to speak for the family.

The company said Rani Kapur had "not been a shareholder since 2019".

On the appointment of Priya Sachdev Kapur as a ...