Industrialist Baba Kalyani's sister accuses him of fraud amid samadhi dispute
The ongoing dispute between one of the country's top industrialists, Baba Kalyani, and his sister Sugandha Hiremath over the construction of the memorial shrine (Samadhi) of their mother Sulochana Kalyani refuses to die down as the latter has filed a lawsuit against her brother, accusing him of "playing fraud on the court".In her affidavit filed before the Pune Civil Court on Friday, Sugandha stated that Baba "even today continues to shift his stand and is guilty of deliberate deception". Her statement was based on depositions that Baba Kalyani made in court.advertisementSugandha claims that, immediately after their mother's demise in February 2023, she requested her brother Baba that a samadhi should be built in her memory, right next to their father's samadhi on a plot in Keshav Nagar in Pune. However, Baba chose to immerse her ashes in a river instead.
Days before their mother's second death anniversary, Sugandha said she wrote to Baba to build the samadhi, but he dismissed it and asked her to do so on the plot where Parvati Nivas stands.Sulochana Kalyani used to stay with her younger son Gaurishankar at Parvati Nivas, when she breathed her last. The plot is under Gaurishankar and his wife Rohini's control.As per Sugandha's petition, she scoffed at the idea of Samadhi at Parvati Nivas as it was her mother's wish to be buried next to her husband at the Keshav Nagar plot.advertisementWhen Baba did not relent, Sugandha approached the Pune court and filed a suit. On the very first hearing on February 13, 2025, Baba's side produced a mail from the industrialist which stated that he was willing to talk to his siblings along with their family priest about building the samadhi. A meeting for the same was slated a week later.When the meeting took place, Baba told Sugandha that he had already installed a Shivlinga at Jangamwadi Math in Kashi in their mother's name and that she should not insist on samadhi in the Keshav Nagar plot. Sugandha and her husband, Jai Hiremath, went to Kashi only to find that a small Shivlinga was located with over a lakh others in the Math and did not even slightly resemble a samadhi.
At this, Sugandha expressed shock, claiming her brother had "deceived her yet again". To this, Baba filed an affidavit clarifying that the meeting for samadhi was to happen between all the Kalyani siblings.But since their younger brother Gaurishankar did not participate, it did not reach fruition. Moreover, he stated that all the rituals suggested by Jagadguru had been followed after their mother's demise, indicating that the demand for samadhi was baseless. Baba also added that the Keshav Nagar plot belonged to a company and not him.Sugandha, in her recent affidavit, has come down heavily on Baba and has requested the court to take action against him and alleged that this is also a fraud on the court. The case has been kept for hearing next on June 27.Must Watch
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