“I was not given food... threatened,” K’taka guv’s grandson accused of dowry abuse by wife
Bhopal: Divya Gehlot, wife of Karnataka Governor Thawarchand Gehlot’s grandson Devendra Gehlot, has reportedly filed a case against her spouse and his family over allegations of dowry harassment, physical and mental abuse and attempt to murder and kidnapping of her four-year-old daughter.
In her complaint to Ratlam SP Amit Kumar, she has alleged that her in-laws have forcibly kept her daughter in detention in Nagda in Ujjain district.
Divya has named her husband Devendra Gehlot (33), former Alot MLA Jitendra Gehlot (55), brother-in-law Vishal Gehlot (25), and grandmother-in-law Anita Gehlot (60) for alleged dowry harassment and abuse.
She further claimed that Devendra was an alcoholic, drug addict, and maintained illicit relationships, details of which she says were hidden before their marriage.
She mentioned in the complaint that Devendra’s indecent behaviour and physical abuse were a regular occurrence, post-marriage.
The duo were married on April 29, 2018, under the Chief Minister's Kanyadana Yojana in Tal (Alot). The event was attended by several dignitaries, including the then Union Minister and former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
According to her complaint, the violence intensified in 2021, when she was pregnant. “I was not given food and was mentally abused; this continued even after the child’s birth,” Divya said.
She alleged that on the night of January 26, 2025, Devendra, in an inebriated state, threatened to kill her if she failed to bring money as dowry and pushed her off the roof.
Divya said that despite her sustaining injuries after falling from the gallery, she was not taken to the hospital. The next day, she was taken to a private hospital in Nagda, and the doctors advised her to be taken to Bombay Hospital in Indore as her condition was critical.
Divya also claimed her in-laws have been preventing her from meeting her daughter. In November, she complained that when she visited her daughter at school, her husband stopped her and demanded she get money from her parents if she wanted to see her daughter.
Ratlam police have reportedly forwarded the complaint to authorities in Ujjain district, as the incident occurred under the district’s jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, responding to the allegations, former MLA Jitendra Gehlot stated, “Anyone can make allegations. I will inform the media about everything.”
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
