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“Was treated like a farm animal, forced to perform unnatural sex”: Honey Singh’s wife Shalini Talwar’s startling allegations
New Delhi: According to an Indian Express report, the wife of singer Hirdesh Singh, who goes by the stage name Yo Yo Honey Singh, has approached a Delhi court alleging physical, mental and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband.
She has filed an application before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tania Singh, who has issued notice to the singer and given him time till August 28 to file a reply in the matter.
The petition mentioned how the singer’s attitude towards his wife changed suddenly when they reached Mauritius, for their honeymoon in 2011. It said that Honey Singh was ‘rude, brash and cold’ towards Shalini and when she asked him about it, he pushed her on the bed and told her that he got married to her against his will, only due to the ‘commitment he had made towards her’.
She also accused him of leaving her alone on the trip, and for being in a drunken state. When she asked him about it, he puller her hair, slapped her and told her to ‘shut up’.
Advocate Sandeep Kapur, Apoorva Pandey and GG Kashyap appeared on behalf of the victim woman. They filed an application under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, alleging that Singh had become “extremely arrogant, abusive, harsh and uncaring” to the woman following their marriage in 2011.
The woman has accused Singh of assault, having illicit relationships and mental abuse.
She stated in her plea that Singh “showed no shame in attacking, browbeating, manhandling, cheating and causing irreparable harm to the woman he was supposed to cherish and protect. The Applicant, on the other hand, brought back (Singh) from the abyss into light.”
The woman has demanded a compensation of Rs 20 crore from him and asked the court to direct him to pay Rs 5 lakh per month for a fully furnished house in a reputed part of Delhi. She has also asked that her stridhan and dowry articles be returned to her.
In April this year, the woman claimed she got Covid-19 and her oxygen levels depleted. She asked her husband for help, who allegedly did not answer her calls and was instead “sharing Covid help messages” on his social media. Her plea claimed that she had to herself get admitted to a hospital in Noida after her husband refused to help her.
She alleged that on one occasion, she was locked inside her room without food for more than 18 hours. She also alleged she was forced to quit her job. “The respondent (Singh) broke the applicant as an individual, mentally and emotionally. The applicant, due to the continuous cruelty imposed on her, almost started identifying herself as a farm animal, shepherded from here to there while being treated cruelly,” her plea alleged.
The plea claims that Singh assaulted her, accusing her of leaking their wedding pictures to online platforms, which she denied. The legal team also accused Singh of hiding his marriage and maintaining his single status before the rest of the world.
She also mentioned how Honey Singh refused to take her along on his tours and ‘began having frequent casual sex with multiple women’. He never disclosed to the world that he was married and refused to wear his wedding ring in public, saying that diamonds are bad luck for him.
Shalini accused him of having an affair with a woman who worked with him on the Brown Rang music video.
As per the petition, while Shalini was fasting for him on Karwa Chauth, he was in Dubai with the woman. Upon his return, she found pictures of him with the woman in a ‘compromising position’ but he told Shalini to mind her own business and threw ‘liquor bottles’ at her.
Shalini said that she found more pictures with different women later, as well.
Besides this, she also claimed that her father-in-law once walked into her room in an inebriated condition while she was changing her clothes and grazed his hands over her chest.
Shalini further said that there is evidence to show various acts of domestic violence perpetrated upon her, requesting the court to issue orders against the rapper.
Shalini has sought ₹10 crore compensation under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, saying she felt like a ‘farm animal…being treated cruelly’. She has also said that she was forced to perform unnatural sex.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tania Singh has issued a notice to Honey 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.