Case against Yo Yo Honey Singh

The singer’s wife says she felt like a “farm animal... being treated cruelly”, seeks `10 cr compensation

Wife of singer and actor Yo Yo Honey Singh has filed a domestic violence case against him and sought `10 crore compensation under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, saying she felt like a “farm animal...being treated cruelly”.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tania Singh has issued notice to Singh, directing him not to alienate or create any third party rights in their jointly owned property in Noida or dispose of his wife’s jewellery and other articles, said her lawyer.

Shalini Talwar, Singh’s wife, said that she was subjected to numerous incidents of physical, verbal, mental, and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband and his family.

Talwar, 38, claimed that Singh beat her many times in the last few years and she is constantly living under fear as he and his family have threatened her with physical harm.

“Due to mental harassment and cruelty imposed upon her over a period of time, she also suffered from symptoms of depression and sought medical help,” she stated in the plea, filed through advocates Sandeep Kapur, Apoorva Pandey, and G G Kashyap.

Hirdesh Singh, known professionally as Yo Yo Honey Singh, and Talwar tied the knot on January 23, 2011.

In the plea, Talwar has stated how she was physically assaulted by Singh over the last 10 years.

She revealed how Singh and his family broke her mentally and emotionally so much so that she almost started identifying herself as a “farm animal, shepherded from here to there”.