Anita Advani’s appeal rejected by High Court: Refused to consider relationship with Rajesh Khanna as marriage; Dimple Kapadia and Akshay Kumar got relief

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected actress Anita Advani’s plea seeking recognition of her relationship with late actor Rajesh Khanna as marriage.

Justice Sharmila Deshmukh gave this order while maintaining the old decision of Dindoshi Court. With this decision, Rajesh Khanna’s family i.e. Dimple Kapadia, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna have got legal relief.

In fact, Anita Advani had publicly claimed that she had been the actor’s companion for the last several years. He had demanded a share in the property and a house to live in.

Had challenged the decision of Dindoshi court Anita Advani had appealed in the High Court against Dindoshi’s 2017 decision of a civil court. At that time Dindoshi Court had rejected Anita’s civil suit on technical grounds.

On Wednesday, the High Court, after hearing lengthy arguments from Anita’s lawyer and Dimple Kapadia and Akshay Kumar’s lawyers, said that the first appeal is rejected.

Legal battle going on since 2012 After the death of Rajesh Khanna, several court cases are going on between Anita Advani and the Khanna family since 2012. Anita had claimed that she was in a live-in relationship with superstar Rajesh Khanna at his Bandra bungalow ‘Aashirvaad’.

He had also filed a case of domestic violence against Dimple Kapadia, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna. Anita alleged that after the death of Rajesh Khanna, she was forcibly thrown out of the bungalow.

The court had said- this relationship is not like marriage Earlier in the year 2015 also, the Bombay High Court had quashed the ongoing domestic violence proceedings against Dimple Kapadia and her family. Then the court had made an important comment saying that the relationship between Anita Advani and Rajesh Khanna was not of the ‘nature of marriage’ under the Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Based on this comment, now their appeal for recognition of their marriage has also been rejected.

Controversy started from bungalow ‘Aashirvad’ Rajesh Khanna died in July 2012. Soon after his death, Anita Advani had publicly claimed that she had been the actor’s companion for the last several years. He had demanded a share in the property and a house to live in.

However, the Khanna family always denied these claims. The bungalow ‘Aashirvad’, which was at the center of controversy, was later sold, but the legal battle was going on for the last 14 years.

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