<div align="justify">Bollywood actor Dimple Kapadia has refuted before the Supreme Court a charge made by Anita Advani, a Mumbai resident, that she has ever deserted her superstar-husband Rajesh Khanna.<br /><br />Anita claimed herself to be the live-in partner of Khanna till her eviction from suburban bungalow ‘Aashirvad’ just before his death on July 18, 2012. She sought a right of residence under the Domestic Violence Act and monthly maintenance from Dimple, her daughter Twinkle and son-in-law Akshay Kumar.<br /><br />Dimple married Khanna in 1973 at the age of 16, months before the hit movie Bobby with the title role was released.<br /><br />Claiming that she stood by Khanna at all times, Dimple denied she left the marital home in 1982 or was living separately or her relationship with Khanna was estranged or there was no marital relationship between her and Khanna till his demise.<br /><br />“It is denied that Anita has at all been a soulmate at any time either during the alleged dark or lonely period or in the evening of his life, as alleged or at all,” she said, in an affidavit.</div>
<div align="justify">Bollywood actor Dimple Kapadia has refuted before the Supreme Court a charge made by Anita Advani, a Mumbai resident, that she has ever deserted her superstar-husband Rajesh Khanna.<br /><br />Anita claimed herself to be the live-in partner of Khanna till her eviction from suburban bungalow ‘Aashirvad’ just before his death on July 18, 2012. She sought a right of residence under the Domestic Violence Act and monthly maintenance from Dimple, her daughter Twinkle and son-in-law Akshay Kumar.<br /><br />Dimple married Khanna in 1973 at the age of 16, months before the hit movie Bobby with the title role was released.<br /><br />Claiming that she stood by Khanna at all times, Dimple denied she left the marital home in 1982 or was living separately or her relationship with Khanna was estranged or there was no marital relationship between her and Khanna till his demise.<br /><br />“It is denied that Anita has at all been a soulmate at any time either during the alleged dark or lonely period or in the evening of his life, as alleged or at all,” she said, in an affidavit.</div>
