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A new twist has emerged in the courtroom soap opera about the feuding Pathak family and the multi-million pound company, founded by the late Laxmishanker Pathak.
The youngest Pathak, 50-year-old Yogesh, has announced he is flying into London from Florida to give evidence in support of his two older sisters who say they have been cheated out of their inheritance.
Before he died, Laxmishanker gave each of his six children 1,250 shares in the Patak Spice Company that now turns over £50 million a year.
But his daughters, 66-year-old Chitralekha and 52-year-old Anila, say the shares they gave to their mother for safekeeping were handed over to their brother Kirit.
Kirit and his Mumbai-bred wife Meena are credited with making such a success of Patak Spices that its products are now stocked by virtually every British supermarket, as well as 7,500 Indian restaurants.
They have accused his sisters of trying to cash in on their success, a charge that is firmly denied by Chitralekha and Anila.
On Monday, Chitralekha dug out an old memo in which her mother had written in Gujarati, "I give in writing on this paper that I will give over my daughter's shares before I die and I have already talked with my son as well."
Asked by her brother's lawyer, David Oliver QC, if the note was a forgery, she replied, "I know that note is written by my mother. Please feel free to get what expert you want. It should be 100 per cent proof."
Asked if she was motivated by greed, Chitralekha replied: "I'm very sorry if you feel like that. It hurts me when they say things like that."
Oliver commented, "The real explanation for not having raised the question of the shareholding before is that whilst it was relatively small, it did not matter very much. But now that it has grown into a substantial concern, you have concocted a story about some form of trust over your shares."
Chitralekha replied, "I totally reject it."