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SC issues notice to Dimple Kapadia
New Delhi, Aug 7
The Supreme Court on Friday
issued notice to actress Dimple Kapadia on a petition filed by Anita
Advani who sought restoration of her complaint of domestic violence
against her subsequent to the death of former Bollywood superstar Rajesh
Khanna.
An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu
issued notice on Advani's plea challenging a Bombay High Court order of
April 9, 2015, quashing her complaint of domestic violence against
Dimple Kapadia, her daughter Twinkle and son-in-law Akshay Kumar.
Appearing
for Advani, senior counsel C.A. Sundaram told the court that his client
lived with Rajesh Khanna for 25 years following his estrangement from
his wife Kapadia.
The case is rooted in the eviction of Anita
Advani from Rajesh Khanna's Carter Road bungalow 'Aashirwad' after his
death. Advani, who claimed to be the live-in partner of the former
superstar, had sought monthly maintenance and a three-bedroom flat in
Bandra.
As Sundaram questioned the high court order quashing
Anita Advani's complaint against Dimple, Twinkle and Akshay Kumar under
the Domestic Violence Act, the apex court asked how could a married
woman have a live-in relationship with another man.
The court was told that Anita Advani was not married and had a live-in relationship in the nature of marriage.
The
Bombay High Court had on April 9, 2015, quashed the complaint of
domestic violence filed by Advani in 2013 against Dimple, Twinkle,
Rinkie and son-in-law Akshay Kumar.
Initially, the high court
discharged Dimple and Rajesh Khanna's daughter Rinkie from the case,
saying she was married and staying in Kolkata and thus the offence under
the Domestic Violence Act could not be made out against her.
The
Kapadias and Akshay Kumar had moved the high court after a lower court
in 2013 initiated proceedings against them and issued notice to the four
on the complaint by Advani.