Radisson Blu Hotels Chain Boss Sues Son For Not Following Sikh Tradition Of Sharing Family Wealth

Together they turned a small family business into a high-class hotel chain (right) worth £800million. But on Tuesday Bal Mohinder Singh (bottom left), 86, and his elder son, Jasminder (top left), are due to take opposing sides in a High Court battle. Jasminder, 62, head of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotels empire, is being sued by his father who accuses him of abandoning the Sikh tradition of sharing family property by excluding him from the business.

 Mr Singh Snr claims that in 2010, his son forced him to retire, and has failed to follow the ‘Mitakshara’ system, from the Sikh and Hindu traditions, which implies a sharing of family wealth.

The system is not part of English law, but his lawyers argue that all family members chose to work under it and had therefore joined a ‘common intention constructive trust’.

 He has also accused his son of trying to force him and his mother out of the family home, the seven- bedroom Tetworth Hall where Jasminder also lives with his wife Amrit and their four children.

It is understood that Jasminder Singh claims that he did not have a particularly religious upbringing, that neither of his parents regarded the family to be living under an agreement to share property nor  was there any such agreement, and that he played the leading part in building up the family business.

 Amazingly,although devastated by his sons behaviour the men and their wives still share a home together near Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.

*hmm when in Nigeria children gladly take over from their papa businesses?different strokes for different folks indeed!