Rajendra Singh Lodha (died 3 October 2008), popularly known as R. S. Lodha, was an Indian chartered accountant and the chairman of the

Birla Corporation Birla Corporation Limited is an Indian-based flagship company of the M P Birla group of companies, founded by Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla in the late 1910s and carried on by Madhav Prasad Birla. In the 1890s, Birla Corporation was a jute manufact ...

. Lodha became co-chairman of the Birla Corporation in 2001. In July 2004,

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, chairperson of the Birla Corporation, died and was revealed to have bequeathed the entire assets of the company to Lodha in 1999. Lodha was also the will's executor. This sparked a protracted legal battle between members of the

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and Lodha that included more than 110 court cases at one time. Despite this, Lodha took charge as chairman of the corporation.Heir to Priyamvada Birla’s legacy dies
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Death

Lodha died in

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of a heart attack on 3 October 2008. He had two sons and a daughter. The legal battle over the Birla estate continued after his death.

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