PAWAN KALYAN
PAWAN KALYAN, RENU DESAI AND THEIR SON
After lying low for over a month, actor Pawan Kalyan filed for divorce from his first wife Konidala Nandini on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. The divorce petition was filed by him in the family court in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
Advocate K Kusumasri, who filed the petition on behalf of the actor, said that her client is seeking divorce under section 13(1)(A)(B) of the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, citing irreconcilable differences.
The petition registered in the court as OP 590/2007, has been posted for hearing on September 5 when the actor has to present himself before the court.
Pawan, in his petition, also cited Nandini's frequent threats that he should quit the film world for her sake and her 'disrespect' towards members of his 'mega' family.
The actor, in his petition, claimed that Nandini left him in October 1997 and refused to come back. And that he has been living apart from her since then. Pawan and Nandini got married on May 17, 1997, in Shirdi.
Meanwhile, Nandini's family is yet to come to grips with Pawan's 'wild allegations,' as revealed by Nandini's lawyer Devara Satyanarayana. He said that initially, Nandini's stand was to go for rapprochement. But, if there is no course for reunion, the family would fight the case on an equal footing, he said.
It was Nandini who started it all, by filing a bigamy case in the first additional metropolitan magistrate court against Pawan and his family on June 22. Later, she moved the family court, seeking alimony. The family court had asked the actor to depose before it on July 31.
The three town police, who took Nandini's statements and went into the whole gamut of the case, said they will submit a report to the court on Thursday.
Earlier, the metropolitan magistrate court had ordered the police to submit a detailed report on the case by July 26.
(Courtesy: The Times of India)
