Court summons Yuvraj Singh, family in domestic violence case
GURGAON: A Gurgaon court has issued a notice to cricketer Yuvraj Singh, his brother Zorawar Singh, and mother Shabnam Singh after a complaint was filed by Zorawar’s estranged wife Akanksha Sharma, who has alleged harassment and torture by the trio during her seven month stay with the family.
Sharma on August 2, 2017, approached a Gurgaon local court and submitted a petition alleging harassment, torture, and physical violence perpetrated upon her.
The court summoned Zorawar Singh, his brother Yuvraj Singh and their mother Shabnam Singh on October 21 for hearing in the matter. The victim’s lawyer Swati Singh Malik confirmed the development and said that a case has been filed in a Gurgaon court as her client Akanksha Sharma was subjected to harassment and torture.
“Akanksha was tortured mentally and physically and she was asked, rather irrationally, to start a family during a particular timeperiod as it will help in begetting a male child. She was subjected to both physical as well as mental harassment”, said Malik.
A notice to the family was sent on August 2 when the case was filed in the Gurgaon court. However, another notice was issued in September, and it remains to be seen whether it was served on the trio or not, said Malik. “The court will hear the case on October 21 and we expect their presence. The case was filed under various sections of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005”, she added.
However, Damanbir Singh Sobti, the lawyer for Yuvraj Singh’s family refuted the allegations and said that the case had been filed to get mileage and it would not stand judicial scrutiny.
“This case has been filed despite a compromise being worked out between Sharma and Zorwar and all her demands being fulfilled”, said Sobti.
He further said that a case of divorce with mutual consent between the duo is pending in Chandigarh but this perhaps is the fallout of criminal and civil defamation cases filed against Sharma by Yuvraj’s mother Shabnam Singh after her outbursts. “There are certain misrepresentations being made in the social media that a criminal complaint or an FIR has been registered against my clients on the basis of false and baseless allegations. No such FIR or complaint has been filed. Akanksha has filed a petition under Section 25 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and my clients have been summoned as respondents and their counsel shall appear on their behalf on the date fixed before the court at Gurgaon”, Singh stated. SRINAGAR: A school teacher was found dead with his throat slit in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, a week after three militants were killed in a gunbattle with security forces at his house, police said.
The body of Aijaz Ahmad of Wathoo village was found in an open field a few kilometres from his house. According to police, a hand-written note was found with his belongings that said he was killed “to avenge the death of the three militants in Gattipora’’.
Three Hizbul Mujahideen militants had been killed in an encounter in Gattipora on October 10.
“We cannot say who wrote it. We are investigating all angles,’’ Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, Shopian’s superintendent of police, said.
In an unrelated incident, unidentified militants shot dead Haleem Gujjar, a special police officer (SPO) in Tral area of Pulwama district, at his home in Gutroo village. A manhunt is on for the assailants, the police said.
Apart from Ahmad’s killing, the Shopian revenge letter, written in Urdu, also warned that people “working with the army or police’’ face dire consequences.
“We have names of all those working with security forces and this is the last warning for them,’’ the letter said.
Ahmad reportedly featured in a video, posted by a newspaper on its website, as “being helped out of the encounter site by jawans’’. Security forces normally evacuate civilians trapped in encounter sites.
AKANKSHA SHARMA APPROACHED COURT IN AUGUST AND SUBMITTED HER PLEA. THE HEARING IS ON OCTOBER 21