New Delhi, July 30 -- The recent passing of Sunjay Kapur, chairperson of Delhi-based Sona Comstar, has stirred not just grief but also deep rifts within the Kapur family. At the heart of the escalating dispute is the company's promoter entity Aureus Investment Pvt. Ltd and a gradual yet consequential shift in ownership and control of Sona Comstar, the country's eighth-largest auto component maker.

The genesis of the current tensions appears to be a chain of events between 2017 and 2019. In that period, the family's matriarch and Sunjay's mother, Rani Kapur, left the board of the promoter firm Aureus and transferred her shareholding to a trust named RK Family Trust.

Aureus holds nearly 28.02% promoter stake in Sona Comstar, currently wor...