Ex-Bigg Boss contestant Mandana Karimi files domestic violence case against husband Gaurav

Bigg Boss 9 contestant Mandana Karimi has moved a court in Mumbai alleging that she has been “tricked out of the matrimonial house’’ by her husband Gaurav Gupta and her in-laws less than six months into the marriage. She has sought Rs 10 lakh as monthly maintenance and a compensation of Rs 2 crore ‘’for the trauma and agony’’.

The case filed on July 3, before a Andheri metropolitan magistrate is expected to be heard on July 15 said her lawyer Madhukar Dalvi. Gaurav Gupta was not reachable and did not return calls made to his office.

The 31-year-old Iranian national, Mandana was the second runner up in season 9 of Bigg Boss in which Prince Narula had emerged the big winner.

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Mandana resorted to provisions of the Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act of 2005 as she alleged harassment by her husband and in-laws. The couple had tied the knot only this January. She alleges that “just a few days before the marriage’’ he was asked by Gaurav and his parents to sign on a document that would have divested her of her rights as a wife. She refused and later they relented. Theirs was a “court marriage’’ followed by a “proper marriage ceremony on March 5.’’

Mandana had come to India five years ago to pursue a career in modelling and acting. She met Gaurav who has a post production company, though a common friend, says her application. It alleges that Gaurav “took advantage’’ of her loneliness and her feelings of love for him and made it a wedding “pre-condition’’ for her to convert into a Hindu “much against her wishes.’’ Her application is also against her mother-in-law, father-in-law and brother-in-law.

Her mother-in-law, Mandana alleges, “had issues with everything’’ she did and made her feel like she belonged to an “inferior class’’ and prevented her from having a “roka ceremony’’ which her parents were keen to attend. She alleges that though married to Gaurav, she was often made to feel “like a stranger.’’

The application alleges that Gaurav would “stay quiet’’ and “never stood up for my honour and dignity.’’

She alleged that her husband “stopped having physical relations’’ with her at his mother’s behest Mandana’s allegations are that in May however, he began sympathizing with her and said the two of them would live separately in a Juhu flat which was rented out. He asked her to go to Iran and stay with her family till the flat is vacated. She says she agreed but returned as she realized that she was “being tricked out of her matrimonial house with no intention of having me back in his life.’’ She alleges that she was asked by Gaurav to stay in a hotel in Bandra where he would meet her “to sort things out.’’

But she moved court alleging that she has no source of Income in India to even provide for “bare minimum necessities’’ now while her in-laws have a “lavish lifestyle.’’ She has thus sought Rs 10 lakh as monthly maintenance for her “basic needs, necessities and requirements’’ and Rs 2 crore for the “trauma, agony and loss of career caused.’’