Indian Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan Secures Divorce Due to Alleged Cruelty by Wife

Shikhar Dhawan Divorce: Wife Accused of Cruelty in High-Profile Split

The court has noted that the petitioner prayed for the grant of permanent custody of his minor son. Submitting was morally, psychologically, and mentally distraught for the minor son to be with the respondent, which has consistently acted detrimentally to his welfare right from his birth. The family court of Delhi on Wednesday granted divorce to the Indian cricketer Shikar Dhawan and to his wives Aesha and Shikhar Dhawan as petitioners entitled to divorce on the grounds of cruelty. The Judge of the Family Court in Delhi, Harish Kumar, said while dissolving their 11-year wedding relationship, “There is no dispute that both parties had agreed to take divorce by mutual consent and that their marriage was otherwise dead long ago and they have not been living as husband and wife since August 8, 2020”.

“Respondent’s/ estranged wife intentional decision to leave this matter uncontested also shows her desire that the court should pass decree of divorce even at the cost of holding her guilty of the matrimonial offence as she knows that no harm could be caused to her even if she is held to have treated the petitioner with crueity because she has already obatined sucfficient favourable orders from the Federal Circuit  and Family Court in Australia,”the court said,”

“This thought of her has given her the courage to not abide by the order dated March 2, 2023 and June 6. 2023 of this court deliberately and intentionally. Hence, the facts and circumstances of the present case as discussed above petitioners are entitled to a decree of divorce on the grounds of cruelty,” Court added.

The Court has further said that the decree of divorce on the ground enumerated in Section 13(1)(a) of the HMA is here by passed, thereby dissolving marriage between parties here in performed on December 30, 2012, according to the rites of Sikhs on November 30, 2012, at Gurudwara, Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.

“The Child is an Australian citizen and is in Australia. Any order or judgement can be implemented in foreign territory effectively only if the State machinery of that foreign country is willing to implement the same either voluntarily or under international obligations,” the court said. The Court issued an order in the meantime to clear up the child’s education, and the respondent hereby directs the child to India for visitation purposes, including an overnight stay with the petitioner and his family members for at least half of the school vacation during his academic dates. The child has been unsupervised by the Australian petitioner for a sufficient duration.

Shikar Dhawan, in a petition as a petitioner, said through a plea that she was done post-marriage just to extort his crores of money from him and to defame his fame and spoil his cricket career.

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