Rajendra Singh Lodha has filed petitions in the Calcutta high court seeking dismissal of the applications filed by Radha Mohata, Lakshmi Newar and K K Birla, G P Birla, B K Birla and Yashovardhan Birla for appointment of administrator over the estate of late M P Birla.

In the petitions Lodha alleged that the move was an abuse of the process of law and multiplicity of the proceedings and should not be allowed.

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The petition highlighted that a similar petition was filed with the Company Law Board by some employees of B K Birla group of companies with the same pleas and documents and through the same advocate-on-record sought an order for appointment of administrator over the affairs of Birla Corporation, the flagship company of the M P Birla group, which was refused by CLB.