Shikhar Dhawan was granted divorce by the Delhi High Court on the grounds of cruelty by his wife. Dhawan and Aesha tied the knot in October 2012.
Shikhar Dhawan, a star Indian cricketer, grant divorce from his estrange wife Aesha Mukherji in a family court in Delhi on Wednesday, October 4. Judge Harish Kumar accepted all of Dhawan’s charges in his divorce suit against his wife. Claiming that the wife did not contest or defend herself.
The judge stated that his wife tortured the India batsman to mental agony. Forcing him to live apart from his son for years. The court, however, did not issue a permanent custody order for the couple’s son, but did award Dhawan the right to meet him at suitable times in India and Australia, as well as to converse with him via video call.
According to Dhawan’s request. Aesha previously stated that she would come to live with him in India but unable to do so due to an agreement with his ex-husband not to leave Australia.
According to a story in Bar & Bench. The court also consider Dhawan’s claim that Aesha forced him to make her the owner of 99 percent of the three homes he acquire in Australia with his own money. The court also noted that she had coerced him into making her a co-owner in the other two properties.
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Court also held that Aesha sent defamatory texts against Dhawan
Furthermore, Aesha defended herself against allegations that she sent disparaging text messages to numerous BCCI officials. As well as the owners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise and fellow cricketers. She indicate that she sent those messages to only three persons in order to receive her monthly maintenance payments on time, as Dhawan postponing them.
However, the court reject her defense, ruling that disparaging texts were distribute to a large number of persons in order to pressure, defame, and humiliate Dhawan. The Court also acknowledged that Aesha fought Dhawan for taking his elderly father to the hospital after he developed COVID-19.
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