[New post] Indian parents sue son for £530,000 after he fails to provide them with a grandchild
olumorocktv posted: " An Indian couple wants their son to repay double the amount of money they claim they spent on him because he failed to provide them with a grandchild. Sajneev Prasad, 61, and wife Sadhana, 57, paid for Shrey Sagar to train to be a pilot in the US – be"
An Indian couple wants their son to repay double the amount of money they claim they spent on him because he failed to provide them with a grandchild.
Sajneev Prasad, 61, and wife Sadhana, 57, paid for Shrey Sagar to train to be a pilot in the US – before the recession forced him back to India in 2007.
Shrey had an arranged marriage with his wife Shubhangi in 2016, and his parents claimed they gifted the newlyweds a £63,000 Audi,
They also said they paid for their wedding at a five-star hotel and sent them to Thailand for honeymoon.
Shrey now works as a pilot in India but he lives separately from Shubhangi. The Prasads claim to have spent 25million rupees (£265,000) on their son since he was born.
They want that amount of money back, along with another 25million rupees in damages amounting to £530,000 overall.
The parents claim they paid for their son to get married at a five-star hotel (Picture: ANI)
His mum told the local outlet The National World: 'We killed our dreams to raise him.
'It is a dream of every parent to become a grandparent. We had been waiting for years to become grandparents.
'We had been trying to convince our son and his wife but they paid no heed to our demands. We are heartbroken that we will die without seeing [a] grandchild.'
The charge has gone to Haridwar District Court, filed as 'mental agony and harassment' – technically a domestic abuse case.
The court will look at the charge on May 17 – when Shrey and Shubhangi will be officially contacted.
As bizarre as the case seems, there is a cultural context to the dispute.
I gave my son all my money, got him trained in America. I don't have any money now. We have taken a loan from bank to build home. We're troubled financially& personally. We have demanded Rs 2.5 cr each from both my son & daughter-in-law in our petition: SR Prasad, Father pic.twitter.com/MeKMlBSFk1
Traditionally, India's family systems grow to include grandparents, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles and everyone's children – often living in the same household or very near to each other.
This is gradually changing as more young people choose to move further away and opt to work instead of focusing on their families.
In the court submission, Sajneev wrote: 'My son has been married for six years but they are still not planning a baby. At least if we have a grandchild to spend time with, our pain will become bearable.
'We also had to take a loan to build our house and now we are going through a lot of financial hardships. Mentally too we are quite disturbed because we are living alone.'
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