Hinduja brothers call truce on family feud

The billionaire Hinduja brothers called a truce on a bitter power struggle that threatened the future of the business empire of the UK’s wealthiest family.

The brothers agreed to halt reams of litigation across Europe, ending, for now, a feud that was tearing the once tightly knit British-Indian group apart. With accusations of everything from a funding squeeze to misappropriated cash, the fight had drawn excoriating criticism from a London judge, especially over the care of the family patriarch, Srichand Hinduja — throwing open the possibility of a breakup of the ownership structures behind the century-old conglomerate.

SP, as the 86-year-old is known, suffers from dementia, and the court was told that the family’s dispute went so deep that he was days away from being transferred to a government-run NHS hospital.