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A vintage Rolls-Royce that ruined a royal wedding | India News – Times of India
The woman, daughter of a royal family from Gwalior, said her husband was so enamored with a 1951 Rolls-Royce car in her parental home that he wanted it as part of a dowry, but her family turned it down.
The girl and the family claimed that their ancestor was an admiral of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the ruler of Konkan. The boy, whose father was a colonel in the army, continued the lucrative family business of running an educational institution in Indore. Both gave different accounts of how the ‘rista’ was finalized and the engagement took place in Gwalior in March 2018 and the wedding in Rishikesh a month later. But one fact was common. The bride was never taken to her marital home due to disputes.
The man filed a complaint against the girl and her parents for defrauding his family of a large sum of money during the wedding.
The woman retaliated with one dowry harassment FIR against the boy and his family. But this FIR was quashed by MP HC. She moved SC to challenge it. She said the man was so enamored with the Rolls-Royce car that he and his parents demanded it as part of a dowry along with a flat in Mumbai.
Senior lawyer Vibha Datta Makhija told the SC bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan on Wednesday that the woman is in a sticky position because “there is no tradition of remarriage in her old-fashioned royal community.” The bench appointed former HC judge R Basant as mediator for the direction conciliation procedure between the warring parties.
