The Agripada police in Mumbai have booked Kenya-based businessman Nikhil Patel - the estranged husband of television actor Dalljiet Kaur - on the charges of cruelty and criminal breach of trust after she accused him of ill-treating her son from her first marriage and causing her mental trauma by refusing to return her jewellery. In her statement to the police, Kaur said she got married to actor and Big Boss contestant Shalin Bhanot in December 2009, and as the two did not get along well, the two got divorced in 2015. Since then, she has been staying with her son and earning a living from her acting career. "In August 2022, I came across one Nikhil Patel through a dating app, who stayed in Kenya and worked as a chief growth officer in a finance company. Both of us introduced each other as single parents, after which we met in Dubai in September 2022," read the statement of the complainant. Subsequently, police said, Patel's family came to India to meet the actress, following which they travelled to Nepal together where Patel proposed her for marriage. On March 18, 2023, the two got married in Malad and went on a honeymoon, following which they settled in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. "In Kenya, the complainant has claimed that Patel ill-treated her son. He would scold the minor for every small mistake, due to which he was scared of Patel," said an officer. "She has shared other instances of ill-treatment too, due to which there were constant quarrels between the couple and she returned to India in January this year," said an officer at Agripada police station. "After I came to India, he shared a photo with one of his girlfriends on his Instagram account and when I asked him, he initially claimed that there was nothing between them. However, later he told me about his relationship despite being married to me," read the statement from Kaur. Subsequently, Kaur said Patel sent a notice from Kenya, asking her to take her luggage. "As I went there, he had kept all my belongings in a godown and refused to give me my necklaces worth Rs 6 lakh," the complaint read. The Agripada police have registered a case under sections 85 (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 316 (2) (criminal breach of trust) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Senior police inspector Yogendra Pache said, "On the basis of her complaint, we have registered a case against Patel. Our investigation is going on and we have not arrested anyone in the case as yet."
