A dispute over the possession of a multi-crore house in Delhi’s Golf Links has led to a legal battle between the families of the “doorkeeper” to Indira Gandhi and a confidant of Jawaharlal Nehru Jayashree Singh, daughter of late CPN Singh, former governor of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, has moved a local court seeking possession of the two-storey house which, according to her, she lawfully owns.Singh submitted that the house was currently in the “illegal possession” of the widow of RK Dhawan , a senior Congress leader who was personal secretary to late PM Indira Gandhi.She alleged that despite repeated reminders and legal notices, Dhawan’s wife, Achala Mohan, had refused to vacate the house and was now attempting to usurp and sell it illegally without the original papers.Mohan refused to comment. When contacted, Singh told ET: “I had to move court since the legal and public notice issued by me went unanswered. I would like to shift to my house without any delay.” The 86-year-old petitioner claimed that her father had “very good relations with the Nehru family” and was “very close to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi”.Dhawan was residing along with his family at Atul Grove Road prior to 1978, according to the petition. After a change in the government in 1977, when Indira Gandhi was voted out, Dhawan was in need of an accommodation.Singh’s father, upon a request from Indira Gandhi, allowed Dhawan to reside on the ground floor of the house, it says. Owing to close relationships with the Nehru family, the petition reads, Dhawan was allowed to occupy it without payment of any rent or charge.“The arrangement was made only as a gesture of goodwill and to help Dhawan in his time of need,” the petition reads. Singh claimed that it was agreed upon and understood between her father and Dhawan that Dhawan’s possession over the house was in the “nature of a licensee, with limited permissive possession”.She said even after the demise of her father, she continued to honour the arrangement. She claimed that there was a “specific and explicit understanding” between her father and Dhawan that she was the “absolute and lawful” owner of the house, and that its possession would be returned to her as and when she demanded.To buttress her point, the complainant submitted that she had been paying all municipal corporation dues and other government levies on the house. Dhawan’s affidavits given to income tax and other authorities acknowledging the arrangement have also been annexed with the petition.The petitioner said she allowed Dhawan’s request to live in the house till he breathed his last — he died in August this year. However, after his death, the house has not been vacated and is in the “illegal possession” of Mohan, she alleged.Singh has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi seeking their intervention.The suit is slated for hearing next month.