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The Supreme Court has rejected former actor Anita Advani's plea seeking legal recognition of her relationship with the late Rajesh Khanna as a marriage, describing the case as 'luxury litigation'. A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale found no grounds to entertain the appeal, which challenged an April 1 order by the Bombay High Court dismissing her petition. Advani had claimed she was in a live-in relationship with Khanna until his death in July 2012 and sought dignity and recognition through her civil suit.
She was evicted from Khanna's Mumbai bungalow Aashirwad in 2012 by his estranged wife Dimple Kapadia, daughter Twinkle Khanna and son-in-law Akshay Kumar, according to her claims. In 2013, Advani filed a complaint under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, seeking maintenance and a flat in Bandra, but the high court quashed it in 2015, stating her relationship with Khanna was not marital in nature and that his family members could not be included in the proceedings.
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