JAIPUR: After the court’s restraint order came on Thursday, Devraj’s counsel Ravi Bhojak told TOI, “We respect the interim order. We will take our defence before the court at an appropriate time.”
In a separate suit pending before another trial court in the city, Devraj and Lalitya have claimed ownership over Lilypool as the legal heir of the former queen.
The duo’s stand has been that Gayatri Devi willed all her properties to them on May 10, 2009.
The Taj group hotel, meanwhile, has termed Devraj and his sister Lalitya Kumari as “trespassers” who came to occupy Lilypool after the death of Gayatri Devi on July 29, 2009. The property suit alleges that Devraj and Lalitya have been illegally occupying the property since June 30, 2009, when they came here to mourn the death the former queen. The suit categorically mentions Devraj and Lalitya as children of late Jagat Singh “whom former Jaipur Maharaja Sawai Man Singh-II had been given away in adoption”.
The court has been told that Devraj and Lalitya were citizens of Thailand and never resided at Lilypool during the lifetime of Gayatri Devi, as they did not have cordial relations with her.