നടൻ രാജേഷ് ഖന്നയുമായുള്ള തന്റെ ബന്ധം വിവാഹമായി അംഗീകരിക്കണമെന്നാവശ്യപ്പെട്ട് നടി അനിത അഡ്വാനി നൽകിയ ഹർജി സുപ്രീം കോടതി തള്ളി. ഇത് അനാവശ്യമായ നിയമനടപടിയാണെന്ന് നിരീക്ഷിച്ച ജസ്റ്റിസ് എം.എം. സുന്ദരേഷ്, പ്രസന്ന ബി. വരാലെ എന്നിവരടങ്ങിയ ബെഞ്ച് ബോംബെ ഹൈക്കോടതിയുടെ ഉത്തരവ് ശരിവെച്ചു. ഇതോടെ വർഷങ്ങളായി തുടരുന്ന നിയമപോരാട്ടത്തിന് അന്ത്യമായിരിക്കുകയാണ്.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former actor Anita Advani's plea challenging the dismissal of her petition seeking recognition of her alleged relationship with late actor Rajesh Khanna as a marriage, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale said there was no ground to entertain the plea. Calling it "luxury litigation", the court rejected Advani's challenge to an April 1 order of the Bombay High Court.
According to PTI, Advani's counsel told the court, "I am seeking dignity. At the end of the day, my prayer in my civil suit, which is for this declaration, is premised on some sense of dignity."
The Bombay High Court had dismissed Advani's appeal against a 2017 order of the Dindoshi sessions court in Mumbai. The sessions court had rejected her civil suit seeking similar relief after Khanna's death in July 2012.
In 2013, Advani filed a complaint before a magistrate under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, against Kapadia, her daughters and her son-in-law. Advani, who appeared in a few films, including "Saazish" and "Daasi", sought monthly maintenance and a three-bedroom flat in Mumbai's Bandra area.
In 2015, the Bombay High Court quashed Advani's complaint and allowed pleas filed by Kapadia and her family seeking its dismissal. The court held that Advani's relationship with Khanna was not in the nature of a marriage and that she could not seek relief under the domestic violence law.
The high court also held that all members of the late actor's family could not be included in the legal proceedings because Advani had never lived with them. The Supreme Court has now declined to entertain her challenge to the dismissal of her plea seeking recognition of the alleged relationship as a marriage.