In all likelihood, Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, will formally part ways with his wife Shweta on Saturday.
GURGAON: In all likelihood, Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, will formally part ways with his wife Shweta on Saturday. The day to pass the order was fixed after a Gurgaon sessions court listened to both the parties on Friday. The couple told mediapersons that the divorce was based on mutual consent and that they would always be friends. District and sessions judge Ramendra Jain asked the couple whether they ever thought of any reconciliation in the past six months after they sought divorce by mutual consent as per section 13(B) of Hindu Marriage Act.
The couple rejected the possibility of reconciliation. The judge then permitted them not to appear before the court on Saturday. ������We as their lawyers will be appearing in court for the pronouncement of the judgment,������ said Sweta���s lawyer Harish Malhotra. Responding to a question, Malhotra added that Shweta has told the court that she does not claim anything from him nor would she do so in future.
The couple had married in August 2006 but moved the court seeking annulment of their marriage in December last year. The court had directed both the parties on January 24 to stay apart for six months and then to appear before the court before it pronounced the order. Speaking to the media, Shweta said: ������There are no hard feelings against each other as the decision to part ways was mutual. We would continue to be good friends. I would continue to be a professional pilot for the time to come. I have thought nothing about any marriage plans.������. Rahul who appeared outside after spending about half-an-hour in the court said: ������As far as old memories are concerned, I will always cherish them. Shweta and I would continue to be good friends.������ The two married on August 29, 2006, following 13 years of friendship, months after Pramod Mahajan was shot dead by his brother in his Mumbai home. Rahul���s relation with Shweta became tense in the same year in December.Later, Rahul hit the headlines when he was hospitalised after an alleged case of drug abuse. Pramod���s secretary, Bibeik Moitra, died of drug overdose in the incident.