The Supreme Court on October 29 refused to entertain former actress Anita Advani’s plea seeking legal recognition of her purported relationship with late actor Rajesh Khanna. Advani’s advocate submitted that her case to be referred to as the late superstar’s widow was about her dignity as she had lived with and taken care of Khanna for 12 years, and her plea for recognition of their relationship was based on that consideration.
A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Prasanna B. Varale said, there were no grounds to entertain her plea against Bombay high court’s order. The bench termed it as “luxury litigation”.
Advani had filed a suit seeking a declaration that her relationship with Rajesh Khanna was in the nature of a marriage and that she should be recognised as his widow. While rejecting her plea, the Bombay high court held that Khanna’s marriage to actress Dimple Kapadia was legally subsisting.
