Bigg Boss contestant 1 contestant and actress Bobby Darling has filed for divorce from husband Ramnik Sharma on the basis of creulty, after a domestic violence case against him in 2017. Bobby Darling, who was seen in some television shows and films and was a contestant on the first season of the reality show Bigg Boss, had since undergone a sex change and got married to her boyfriend Ramnik Sharma in February 2016 in Bhopal.
However, the marriage turned bitter after Bobby, who had changed her name to Pakhi from her original Pankaj, filed a domestic violence case against Ramnik in Delhi. She also alleged unnatural sex in the marriage. Ramnik on his part had said that Bobby lied to him that she would be able to conceive after her sex reassignment surgery.
The Times of India reports that Bobby Darling has now sought dissolution of her marriage in the Bandra family court. She also seeks alimony of Rs 2 crore from her husband and cancellation of a 2016 gift deed for a flat in Oshiwara, Mumbai. Through her lawyer Bhavana Jadhav, Bobby has also filed a plea for ownership of a Bhopal property that she alleges she had bought with her money in joint names "under pressure and misrepresentation."
Bobby Darling also revealed that her married life was "faker than the movies, as the outside world believed her to be happy, while internally she felt a sense of nothingness". She has sought a temporary injunction so that no third party interest is created on the disputed properties.
Ramneek Sharma has questioned the legality of his marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), as Bobby was born a male but got married to him after gender reassignment surgery.
