All sorts of skeletons are tumbling out of the Thackeray family closet as the late Bal Thackeray’s sons are locked in a no-holds-barred battle over his will. Yesterday, the elder son Jaidev dropped a massive bombshell when he revealed that one of his sons had not been fathered by him – the only one among Jaidev’s children to be named in Balasaheb’s will.

Aishwarya Thackeray in mourning during the last rites of his grandfather Bal Thackeray in 2012. He was the only grandchild who inherited an entire chunk of property alone. File pic/Rane Ashish