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Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan was granted a divorce on grounds of cruelty by his wife Aesha Mukerji through a Delhi court on Wednesday. The court judgement stated Aesha subjected Dhawan to mental agony by compelling him to live separately from his only son for years. Judge Harish Kumar of a family court accepted Dhawan’s allegations in his divorce plea against his wife.
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The decision was also based on the fact that Aesha Mukherji either did not fight these allegations or failed to defend herself. However, the court didn’t pass any order on permanent custody of their son. The judge permitted visitation rights to Dhawan to meet his son for the appropriate duration in India and Australia while allowing him to chat with his son over a 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 conveyed through the order.
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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."
