Shaktimaan-fame Mukesh Khanna's elder sister, Kamal Kapoor, has passed away due to lung congestion.

The 62-year-old actor shared the news in a post on Facebook on Wednesday, a day after he dismissed the fake news that he had passed away.

Khanna said that his sister had recently recovered from coronavirus but was still struggling with lung issues.

"Yesterday I struggled for hours to tell the truth of the false news about my death. But I did not know that a terrible truth was hovering over me. Today, my only elder sister Kamal Kapoor has passed away in Delhi. I am very sorry for her death," Khanna wrote, alongside a series of pictures of his sister. 

"After defeating Covid in 12 days, she was defeated by lung congestion. Do not know how God is calculating. Really, I am shaken for the first time in my life," he added. 

On Tuesday, Mukesh, who was equally famous for playing Bhishma Pitamaha in the television series Mahabharata, had dismissed the rumours doing the rounds on social media that he was no more.

"With your blessings, I am completely healthy and safe. I don't have COVID-19 and I was not admitted to any hospital," the veteran actor had said.