Two newspaper reports on Bigamy-Adultery legal position:Actor Pavan Kalyan Case

I have not married Pavan Kalyan: Counters Renu Desai (Courtsey The New Indian Express)
Wednesday July 4 2007 12:42 IST

VISAKHAPATNAM: In a curious twist to the tale, Renu Desai, who reportedly married actor Pavan Kalyan without the latter giving divorce to Nandini, stated in a reply to legal notices that she did not marry Pavan Kalyan at all.

Renu Desai’s reply came to light in the course of investigation on Tuesday and petitioner Nandini’s legal counsel is learnt to be exploring various options to make the actor depose before the judge.“It is a fact that the actress had responded to notices received by her on May 5, and has said in the counter that she did not marry Pavan Kalyan and she was implicated in the case without any involvement in the case,” Nandini’s advocate B Satyanarayana told this website’s newspaper.

Satyanarayana said Renu Desai had sent the reply on May 18 through her advocate in Hyderabad and it contained an address in Pune, suggesting that she was not with Pavan Kalyan.Much before the filing of a bigamy case by Nandini before the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate recently, several notices were sent to Pavan Kalyan and Renu Desai to undo the injustice done to Nandini.It was after the defendants gave unsatisfactory replies that the bigamy case was filed before the metropolitan magistrate.

A dowry harassment case under Sec. 498(A) was filed subsequently against the entire family of Pavan Kalyan, including his actor brother Chiranjeevi.Claiming to be the wife of Pavan Kalyan, Nandini contended that he married Renu Desai without divorcing her and sought a monthly alimony of Rs 5 lakh.

2nd Report
Pavan Kalyan wants divorce (Courtsey Times of India)
8 Mar 2008, 0324 hrs IST,TNN

VISAKHAPATNAM: With Nandini refusing the divorce plea of actor Pavan Kalyan on Friday, the case took a curious turn with the family court postponing the matter to March 28 for further hearing.

When the magistrate tried to counsel the warring couple, the actor reportedly stuck to his ground that there was no question of reconciliation with his estranged wife and he had no plans to live with her. He further argued that he had moved ahead with his life and he could not share or start a new life with Nandini and demanded a divorce from her.

Nandini's lawyer tried to reason out with the judge that his client was willing to go back and stay with the actor in Hyderabad. However, Pavan ruled out any rapprochement in this regard. At this point, Nandini made it clear that she was averse to divorce. When the judge sought to know whether she wanted a reconciliation, she replied 'yes', while Pavan Kalyan said 'no'. With the efforts to bring them together having failed, the judge postponed the case to March 28.

Meanwhile, Nandini pleaded with the magistrate to grant her Rs 1.6 crore along with a monthly alimony of Rs 5 lakh in the bigamy case she filed against the Telugu film actor. The bigamy case was dismissed by the Visakhapatnam metropolitan magistrate court last month. After taking versions of Pavan and Nandini in the alimony case, the judge postponed the case to March 28 for further hearing.