Yukta Mookhey’s in-laws get interim relief from arrest

Yukta Mookhey’s in-laws get interim relief from arrest

Mumbai: A city court on Tuesday granted interim relief till July 25 to the in-laws of former beauty queen Yukta Mookhey on their anticipatory bail applications. Mookhey had filed a criminal case against them and husband Prince Tuli at the Amboli police station on July 3, alleging cruelty and criminal breach of trust, among other charges.
    The court granted relief to Mookhey’s father-in-law Bacchiter Singh (59), mother-in-law Harinder Kaur Tuli (60) and sisters-in-law Manmeet Kaur (32) and Chandan Kaur (34). Prince is yet to file an anticipatory bail application (ABA). Advocates Avinash Gupta and Filji Frederick appeared for the Tulis.
    Mookhey had married Tuli, whose family runs transport and hospitality businesses in Nagpur, in 2008. She and the couple’s three-year-old son have been staying with her parents for a year.
    In their plea, the Tuli family alleged that the couple’s marriage was opposed by a friend who had credible information about Mookhey’s past conduct and character. They alleged that Mookhey refused to allow them and other relatives to spend time with the couple’s son on the pretext of “undue hygiene”. “Even the grandparents were not permitted to touch the child without washing their hands in her presence and to her satisfaction,” the ABA reads.
    The Tulis alleged that the real genesis of the matrimonial dispute lay in Mookhey’s moral character, saying her conduct “was suspicious and inappropriate” on several occasions.
    The family claimed that when Prince was away from Nagpur in June 2012, Mookhey sent him an email seeking forgiveness and professing her love for him. While alleging that the mail was insincere, they said it also establishes that there was no domestic violence or any sort of ill-treatment as alleged by Mookhey in her complaints.
    They also alleged that she made wild and reckless allegations against Prince regarding unnatural sex allegedly committed upon her. They said if the allegations were true, she would not have waited for 13 months to report the matter.
    The court said that in the event of their arrest, they will be released on interim bail on the execution of a bond of Rs 25,000 each. They were also directed not to tamper with the evidence, not to leave the country without the court’s permission and to present themselves before the investigating officer every Wednesday and Sunday. The court also directed the prosecution file its reply.