Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan gets divorce on grounds of cruelty by wife Aesha Mukerji

Digital Desk: Cricketer, Shikhar Dhawan has been granted a divorce by a Delhi court on Wednesday on grounds of cruelty by wife Aesha Mukerji.

Aesha forced Dhawan to live apart from his only son for years, which caused him emotional suffering, according to the court's judgement.

The cricketer's wife was the subject of all the accusations made against her in his divorce petition, which Judge Harish Kumar from a family court in Delhi accepted on the grounds that she either did not contest them or failed to defend herself.

However, the court didn't grant the couple's son permanent custody.

The judge gave Dhawan permission to visit his son for the appropriate period of time in Australia and India.

 

Dhawan was also allowed to chat with his son over video call.

 

“Since petitioner is a reputed International Cricketer and has been pride of the nation, subject to petitioner approaching the Union Government of India, it is requested to take up the issue of visitation/custody of the minor son with its counterpart in Australia to help him have regular visitation or chatting with his own son or his permanent custody," the court said in its order.

 

“He (Dhawan) for no fault of his own had been through immense agony and anguish of living separately from his own son for years. Even though the wife denied the allegation, submitting that though she genuinely wanted to live in India with him, however due to her commitment towards her daughters from her previous marriage requiring her to stay in Australia, she could not come to live in India and that he was well aware of her commitment, yet she did not choose to contest the claim," the judge said in the order.

As Dhawan’s testimony remained unchallenged, the judge said: “Hence, it stands proved that the wife backtracked from her assurance of setting up matrimonial home in India after marriage and thus made him suffer a long distance marriage and suffer immense agony and anguish of living separately from his own son for years."