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Former Bigg Boss contestant, Akanksha Sharma has filed a case of domestic violence against cricketer Yuvraj Singh, his brother Zorawar Singh and mother Shabnam Singh. Sharma, who married Yuvraj’s younger brother Zorawar in 2014, stated last year that through the course of her marriage, she experienced both heavy physical and mental trauma from her in-laws.
According to Sharma, she was forced to carry out unnecessary tasks, was forbidden to interact with outsiders, criticized for every word and move and had her personal things examined by her mother-in-law. To all this and more, she alludes, her husband Zorawar and his brother, celebrated cricketer Yuvraj Singh did nothing to stop the mistreatment and in fact, did their bit to add to it.
As a response to these allegations, Shabnam Singh had told HT City that she had filed a special petition against her estranged daughter-in-law, presumably for the fact that she had chosen a wide-reaching public platform like Bigg Boss to speak about her grievances.
Speaking to The Quint, Sharma’s lawyer Swaty S Malik said that her client had first approached the court last August, but due to a series of events, the court proceedings were vastly delayed. Despite the time-crunch, Malik stated that her client stayed resolute and waited to hear back about an official case and subsequent trial.
In terms of the ‘special petition’ which Shabnam had allegedly filed against Sharma, Malik said that no details, specific or otherwise, were shared with either her or her client, despite the duo asking the court to release documents related to the same.
As of now, the hearing is finally going to take place on the 21 October in Gurugram.
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