Bombay HC appoints mediator to settle row between Yukta Mookhey, Prince Tuli

Mumbai: In a new twist in their matrimonial dispute case, former Miss World Yukta Mookhey and her estranged husband Prince Tuli today requested the Bombay High Court to appoint a mediator to settle the row between them. On a request by the couple, Justice Sadhana Jadhav asked legal aid committee to appoint a senior lawyer as a mediator. [caption id=“attachment_1184989” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Yukta Mookhey. Ibnlive[/caption] The mediator would hear the two parties and submit a report on 19 November. In the meantime, Tuli would continue to enjoy interim protection from arrest already granted to him by the court on his anticipatory bail petition. In a complaint to police in July this year, Mookhey had accused her husband of subjecting her to domestic violence and forcing her to have unnatural sex. She also accused her in-laws of being cruel to her and harassing her. Fearing arrest, Tuli and his family sought anticipatory bail. Mookhey and Tuli had recently told the court that they could not reach an amicable settlement to their dispute. Prior to this, the Judge had called them to her chambers and tried to settle the dispute but the effort did not bear fruit. However, today, the case took a turn when both sides informed that they were agreeable to refer their dispute to a mediator. Mookhey and Tuli requested the court to appoint a mediator, following which the Judge asked the legal aid committee to appoint a senior lawyer. On 31 August, a sessions court had rejected Tuli’s plea for anticipatory bail. The same court had earlier granted him protection from arrest. Aggrieved, Mookhey had moved the high court challenging the sessions court order granting Tuli interim protection. The high court later asked Mookhey to approach the sessions court which was to hear Tuli’s pre-arrest bail. PTI