| Days
after Karisma Kapoor accused husband Sunjay Kapur of
using their five-month-old daughter Samaira as a pawn,
it was the turn of the Delhi-based industrialist to
allege that his wife was using the media to air her
affadavit even before he received it.
Sunjay
stated that it had become impossible to fulfil his
wife’s expectations that he run her mother’s house.
In his rejoinder to Karisma’s affidavit before Delhi
High Court, he expressed shock that the actress was
making financial contributions an issue in a litigation
which is related to the "illegal" procurement
of a passport for their daughter. The case will come up
for hearing on Friday.
Sunjay, too, accused Karisma of leaving him. "I
state the fact that the respondent (Karisma) in a
pre-planned manner went for the delivery of our first
child to her mother’s place and refused to return. She
is using Samaira to cause emotional trauma to me and
deprive me, as well as our daughter, of love and
care," Sunjay claimed.
Kapur also said it was wrong to state that he never
visited Mumbai.
According to him, he visited the metropolis just to meet
his wife and daughter. Through their marriage, he
claimed to have taken care of Karisma’s expenses,
including credit card payments, telephone bills, travel
expenses within India and abroad, restaurant and night
club bills.
Sunjay also claims to have paid film producers whom
Karisma owed money.
"In fact, I continue to pay her credit card and
phone bills,"he stated. Copies of credit card
statements have been annexed along with the rejoinder.
He said if Karisma continues to have a grievance with
regard to lack of financial contribution on his part, he
was willing to reimburse the expenses she incured on
their daughter.
"However,
if she expects me to run her mother’s house while I am
running the expenses of our matrimonial house, the same
is totally unjustifiable," Sunjay said.
Karisma, according to his submission, has acted against
their daughter’s best interest. Since Sunjay is a US
passport holder, he said the actress, by procurring an
Indian passport for the daughter, had curtailed
Samaira’s right to choose citizenship.
He further challenged Karisma’s right as a guardian.
Under the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, it’s
the father who has the power to act on behalf of a minor
child.
"There is a distinction between a guardianship and
custody... I deny there is any desertion on my part.
Even though my wife holds some ill-founded grudges
against me, she should not punish our daughter in this
manner,"Sunjay said.
He claimed that Karisma had misread the provisions of
the Indian Passport Act. According to him, if a couple
is neither divorced nor judicially separated, the
consent of both parents is mandatory before a passport
can be issued. |
