Kirloskar feud: Approach mediator, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday gave one final alternative to the  Kirloskar brothers — Sanjay, Atul and others — to discover the opportunity of resolving their feud over division of property via “preliminary” mediation below former SC choose Indu Malhotra.
A Bench led by Chief Justice NV Ramana requested Sanjay, Atul and 13 different respondents to cooperate and lift all of the objections earlier than the mediator. “We feel that as a preliminary steps, the existing parties shall appear before the mediator, who shall look into the modalities to be worked out for settlement and whether that could be done with the existing array of parties or the need for any other parties to be joined for mediation. In view of that, we direct both the parties to approach the mediator for preliminary discussion on these issues at the earliest and report back to us on December 15,” the apex court docket mentioned.
The Kirloskar household dispute has pitched Sanjay in opposition to his brothers, Atul and Rahul and cousin Vikram. It is principally relating to breach of the Deed of Family Settlement signed on September 11, 2009 the place administration of a number of Kirloskar firms was divided between the brothers.  FE