Actor Dimple Kapadia on Friday filed a petition in the Bombay High Court asserting she was late superstar Rajesh Khanna's legally wedded wife till his death, and no other woman thus could seek a share in his vast wealth by claiming to have been in a relationship with him.

Dimple's petition, supported by another almost identical plea submitted by her son-in-law Akshay Kumar, follows just days after a magistrate's court in Bandra suggested that she arrive at a settlement with Anita Advani, who claims to have been in a live-in relationship with Khanna and has sought access to his palatial Carter Road bungalow 'Aashirwad' and a monthly maintenance of Rs 10 lakh.

Advani has filed a case of domestic violence against Dimple, her two daughters Twinkle and Rinki, and son-in-law Akshay Kumar for evicting her from Aashirwad after Khanna's death on July 18. While Dimple's position on being Khanna's wife is technically correct, it's common knowledge that she was estranged from her husband for many years and lived a separate life.

She and her daughters, who rallied around the superstar only during his last days, have now closed ranks again against Advani. Twinkle and Rinki will soon file separate petitions in the high court rejecting Advani's claim to their late father's wealth and monthly maintenance.

Khanna's sprawling sea-facing bungalow worth Rs 200 crore is at the centre of this dispute. There are several other apartments, commercial properties and plots of land that make up Khanna's nearly Rs 500 crore fortune.

Dimple and Akshay's petitions claim that by Advani's own admission she was thrown out of 'Aashirwad' by Khanna on several occasions and thus a case of domestic violence should have been filed then. "The fact that she chose to move court nearly three months after Khanna's death shows that her only intention is to grab property ."

Replying to Advani's claim made before the magistrate's court that 'Aashirwad' was in a shambles for many years and that it was repaired and refurbished only on her insistence, the twin petitions claim it only demonstrates that Advani and Khanna were friends. The petitions have been mentioned for urgent hearing by Dimple and Akshay's advocate Girish Kulkarni and are likely to be heard on Monday by Justice K U Chandiwal.

To Advani's charge that Khanna's thumb impression on a will was taken by Akshay and Twinkle when he was medically unfit to understand what he was doing, the petitions say that the will has been duly probated.

While Advani has claimed that she was in a "domestic relationship" with Khanna in a "shared household," the petitions site a letter she wrote to the the nailing star just two days before his death in which she did not say anything about the relationship. In the letter, the petitions claim, Advani admitted that Khanna had only pursued her to be his "girlfriend."

Dimple and Akshay have described the magistrate court's suggestion that they arrive at settlement with Advani as unreasonable and sought a stay on proceedings before the Bandra court till the high court decides on their petitions. Advani's lawyer, advocate Manohar Shetty, on Friday claimed he had no knowledge of the petitions before the high court. "We will check and will fight tooth and nail and take this case to its logical conclusion."