In fact, Raghuvir Yadav, who has been living with another woman Roshni Achreja since year 1996, deposited Rs 2.5 lakh with the court immediately and promised to arrange for remaining Rs 2 lakh by June 14.

This amount had accumulated over the years as Raghvir Yadav did not pay his estranged wife Purnima the maintenance amount of Rs 10,000 decided by the courts, after he had filed for divorce in year 1996. Purnima, the estranged wife of the actor, claims that technically she was still the wife of Raghuvir as they had not divorced each other and so either he would have to continue paying maintenance or live with her.

The other woman Roshni Achreja, who has been living with Yadav since 1996, remains only a companion and not wife. In fact, the court had issued arrest warrants against Yadav on 19 October, 2009, when he failed to appear in court or paid alimony amount to Purnima.

Interestingly, it was not police who could trace ?missing? Raghuvir Yadav and arrest him to produce in the court, but it was again his wife Purnima, who spotted him on Rajdhani Empress and contacted Railway Protection Force to arrest him. Purnima had another reason to be extra vigilant about Raghuvir Yadav.

In fact, her son Achal needed money to the tune of Rs 3.5 lakhs to join ace musician A R Rahman?s music school in Chennai and she had no other way but to get money in this way.

Incidentally, Raghuvir Yadav has agreed to pay the amount by June 14 and the deadline for the A R Rahman?s school is June15. Achal needs to deposit the amount before that date if he wants admission in the school.

Purnima had another reason to be extra vigilant about Raghuvir Yadav. In fact, her son Achal needed money to the tune of Rs 3.

5 lakhs to join ace musician A R Rahman?s music school in Chennai and she had no other way but to get money in this way. -- k k rai Send comments: 0comments (less)

The actor was released after he partly paid the amount due to his wife and offered to pay the balance by June 14, Sumangala Biradkar, Purnima's lawyer, told mediapersons here. "Yadav paid Rs.

250,000 to Purnima and would be paying the rest by June 14," she added. According to Purnima's lawyer, Yadav owed her a total sum of Rs.

450,000. V.

S. Thambe, Yadav's lawyer, said: "We had given an application to the Bandra Family Court that Yadav will pay Rs.

2.5 lakh today (Monday).

An undertaking has also been given that Yadav will pay the remaining amount of Rs.2 lakh June 14.

The family court has stamped the application and stayed Yadav's arrest warrant till June 14." "Although I could not attend the hearing today, I have given a no-Objection certificate to another lawyer, Tara Hegde.

Hegde represented Yadav in the court today and will do so June 14," said Thame. Yadav and his wife got divorced in 1996, but the actor failed to pay maintenance for Purnima and their son Achal.

In the court, Yadav cited financial problems for being unable to pay the alimony. The actor was arrested after his wife alleged he was avoiding payment of maintenance.

Purnima also alleged that he had failed to turn up for court hearings for the last eight months. On Friday, Purnima spotted Yadav in the Mumbai-bound Rajdhani Express as she was also travelling by the same train.

Purnima alerted the Government Railway Police (GRP) officials at Mumbai Central railway station, who arrested Yadav and handed him over to the suburban Dindoshi police. Purnima, who had married Yadav in 1988, alleged that her ex-husband was asked to pay a maintenance of Rs.

20,000 per month, which was later brought down to Rs.10,000 but that she didn't receive the money (less)

The actor was released after he partly paid the amount due to his wife and offered to pay the balance by June 14, Sumangala Biradkar, Purnima's lawyer, told mediapersons here. "Yadav paid Rs.

250,000 to Purnima and would be paying the rest by June 14," she added. According to Purnima's lawyer, Yadav owed her a total sum of Rs.

450,000. V.

S. Thambe, Yadav's lawyer, said: "We had given an application to the Bandra Family Court that Yadav will pay Rs.

2.5 lakh today (Monday).

An undertaking has also been given that Yadav will pay the remaining amount of Rs.2 lakh June 14.

The family court has stamped the application and stayed Yadav's arrest warrant till June 14." "Although I could not attend the hearing today, I have given a no-Objection certificate to another lawyer, Tara Hegde.

Hegde represented Yadav in the court today and will do so June 14," said Thame. Yadav and his wife got divorced in 1996, but the actor failed to pay maintenance for Purnima and their son Achal.

In the court, Yadav cited financial problems for being unable to pay the alimony. The actor was arrested after his wife alleged he was avoiding payment of maintenance.

Purnima also alleged that he had failed to turn up for court hearings for the last eight months. On Friday, Purnima spotted Yadav in the Mumbai-bound Rajdhani Express as she was also travelling by the same train.

Purnima alerted the Government Railway Police (GRP) officials at Mumbai Central railway station, who arrested Yadav and handed him over to the suburban Dindoshi police. Purnima, who had married Yadav in 1988, alleged that her ex-husband was asked to pay a maintenance of Rs.

20,000 per month, which was later brought down to Rs.10,000 but that she didn't receive the money (less)

The actor was released after he partly paid the amount due to his wife and offered to pay the balance by June 14, Sumangala Biradkar, Purnima's lawyer, told mediapersons here. "Yadav paid Rs.

250,000 to Purnima and would be paying the rest by June 14," she added. According to Purnima's lawyer, Yadav owed her a total sum of Rs.

450,000. V.

S. Thambe, Yadav's lawyer, said: "We had given an application to the Bandra Family Court that Yadav will pay Rs.

2.5 lakh today (Monday).

An undertaking has also been given that Yadav will pay the remaining amount of Rs.2 lakh June 14.

The family court has stamped the application and stayed Yadav's arrest warrant till June 14." "Although I could not attend the hearing today, I have given a no-Objection certificate to another lawyer, Tara Hegde.

Hegde represented Yadav in the court today and will do so June 14," said Thame. Yadav and his wife got divorced in 1996, but the actor failed to pay maintenance for Purnima and their son Achal.

In the court, Yadav cited financial problems for being unable to pay the alimony. The actor was arrested after his wife alleged he was avoiding payment of maintenance.

Purnima also alleged that he had failed to turn up for court hearings for the last eight months. On Friday, Purnima spotted Yadav in the Mumbai-bound Rajdhani Express as she was also travelling by the same train.

Purnima alerted the Government Railway Police (GRP) officials at Mumbai Central railway station, who arrested Yadav and handed him over to the suburban Dindoshi police. Purnima, who had married Yadav in 1988, alleged that her ex-husband was asked to pay a maintenance of Rs.

20,000 per month, which was later brought down to Rs.10,000 but that she didn't receive the money (less)

The actor was released after he partly paid the amount due to his wife and offered to pay the balance by June 14, Sumangala Biradkar, Purnima's lawyer, told mediapersons here. "Yadav paid Rs.

250,000 to Purnima and would be paying the rest by June 14," she added. According to Purnima's lawyer, Yadav owed her a total sum of Rs.

450,000. V.

S. Thambe, Yadav's lawyer, said: "We had given an application to the Bandra Family Court that Yadav will pay Rs.

2.5 lakh today (Monday).

An undertaking has also been given that Yadav will pay the remaining amount of Rs.2 lakh June 14.

The family court has stamped the application and stayed Yadav's arrest warrant till June 14." "Although I could not attend the hearing today, I have given a no-Objection certificate to another lawyer, Tara Hegde.

Hegde represented Yadav in the court today and will do so June 14," said Thame. Yadav and his wife got divorced in 1996, but the actor failed to pay maintenance for Purnima and their son Achal.

In the court, Yadav cited financial problems for being unable to pay the alimony. The actor was arrested after his wife alleged he was avoiding payment of maintenance.

Purnima also alleged that he had failed to turn up for court hearings for the last eight months. On Friday, Purnima spotted Yadav in the Mumbai-bound Rajdhani Express as she was also travelling by the same train.

Purnima alerted the Government Railway Police (GRP) officials at Mumbai Central railway station, who arrested Yadav and handed him over to the suburban Dindoshi police. Purnima, who had married Yadav in 1988, alleged that her ex-husband was asked to pay a maintenance of Rs.

20,000 per month, which was later brought down to Rs.10,000 but that she didn't receive the money (less)

The actor was released after he partly paid the amount due to his wife and offered to pay the balance by June 14, Sumangala Biradkar, Purnima's lawyer, told mediapersons here. "Yadav paid Rs.

250,000 to Purnima and would be paying the rest by June 14," she added. According to Purnima's lawyer, Yadav owed her a total sum of Rs.

450,000. V.

S. Thambe, Yadav's lawyer, said: "We had given an application to the Bandra Family Court that Yadav will pay Rs.

2.5 lakh on June 7.

An undertaking has also been given that Yadav will pay the remaining amount of Rs.2 lakh June 14.

The family court has stamped the application and stayed Yadav's arrest warrant till June 14." "Although I could not attend the hearing today, I have given a No-Objection certificate to another lawyer, Tara Hegde.

Hegde represented Yadav in the court today and will do so June 14," said Thame. In the court, Yadav cited financial problems for being unable to pay the alimony.

The actor was arrested after his wife alleged he was avoiding payment of maintenance. Purnima also alleged that he had failed to turn up for court hearings for the last eight months (less)

A week ago, Yadav was arrested by the police at the behest of his estranged wife and son, Purnima and Achal, who, on seeing him with his current partner in the same train, alerted station authorities. The couple has been fighting a nasty separation battle and Yadav has been wanted by the cops for evading court.

Finally, after agreeing to alimony to his wife, Raghubir Yadav is temporarily free, and ready to talk. As we enter his house in Oberoi Woods (the Goregaon flat belonging to his girlfriend Roshni Achreja of Banegi Apni Baat), Yadav greets us with a handshake.

But his hands are trembling and his voice is low. “I have gone through hell and abject torture.

Everything changed for me when my son caught hold of me and got me arrested at a railway station last week,” he fights hard to control his tears. Rewinding back to his good old days with Purnima, Yadav says, “One day she came to my shoot and started telling me a sob story.

She said she wanted to commit suicide. I fell for her sob story.

I took her to my hometown Jabalpur and we tied the knot.” Things got choppy soon though.

“During her dancing days (kathak), she used to stay with seven-eight guys in the same room. Actually she was evicted because of her atrocious behaviour.

Later I even learnt that she had married someone.” Raghubir's world fell apart when Purnima reported on the sets of a film for which Yadav was shooting in Nainital.

“She landed up there and started drinking very heavily. When I stopped her, she said that it was normal in her circle.

Suddenly she lay down on the road and started hitting her stomach. And at that time, she was expecting my baby.

” He alleges he also learnt that Purnima was 'friendly' with producer Amar Sharma. “Uski aashiqui to chalti rehti thi.

I couldn't take it any longer when I discovered that she used to visit producer Amar Sharma's place very frequently. When I questioned her, she said, “Mujhe jo karna hain, main karoongi, tu bhi kar jo tujhe karna hai.

I couldn't take it anymore. I filed for divorce in '96.

She is not signing the divorce papers.” Yadav says that Purnima is aided by her friends Ram Gopal Bajaj, Sunil Sinha and Amla Rai.

Flashing back to the past, Yadav reveals, “In 1999, I had gone to meet my son in Panchgani, where he was studying in a boarding school. I took him to Jabalpur for few days and she filed a case of kidnapping against me.

” Looking at Roshni, who is sitting very close to him, he smiles at last. “If I hadn't met Roshni, I don't know what would have happened to me.

I was seriously ill. My serum lipase had shot to 3470 (the normal limit is up to 190).

I was extremely sick.” To alleviate Raghubir's woes, his lawyers advised him that they would take care of the case and he need not appear in Court.

“That was the reason why I evaded the Court and all this while, everyone thought that I had run away. I used to get up in the night and hurl abuses loudly.

Roshni has suffered all this, but she has still stood by me.” Roshni reveals that she even took him to a psychoanalyst so that he regains his composure.

Yadav adds, “I started getting unwell in 2001. I still remember the day I wore white clothes and had a strong feeling that it would be the last day of my life.

That was the day when Roshni came to my house with a family friend. They took me to a hospital.

In 2002, I withdrew the case because my health, mental and physical, had deteriorated.” Talking about his son Achal, Yadav says, “He used to visit us.

Initially he was fine but then he changed. He started saying exactly what she would teach him.

A stage came when he too started demanding money. Purnima started threatening me 'Paise dete ho ya aadmi ko bheju?' I gave her whatever I could.

Today I don't have money. Kahan se dun usko aur paise? (looks at the ceiling and sighs.

) The latest is that she is claiming Rs 3 lakh per month from me. She wants me to give her a house and deposit Rs 15,000-20,000 per month into her bank account.

” Life started to smile on Yadav only when Roshni bore him a son Abir. Roshni says, “Purnima used to ask for lots of money in order to meet Achal.

Aaj bhi sometimes he calls Abir as Abir Achal.” Yadav's pillar of strength, Roshni chips in, “Purnima went to Jabalpur and propagated that I am Raghubir's rakhail (mistress).

The police was troubling me for a few days. I had to hide my son from them as he would be traumatised.

There is a limit to everything. What wrong have we done? Can we be left alone to live in peace?” Raghubir has no plans to marry Roshni.

“We both have gone through hell from our first marriages (Roshni was married to comedian Sanjay Mishra). We have lost faith in the institution of marriage.

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Artist Purnima Shanta Bhattacharya, whose exhibition The Inferno Within is currently on display at the Jehangir Art Gallery till March 24, is the latest artist to have joined the green brigade. She speaks to CS about the need to do so: The cause is very close to my heart and I am concerned about what is happening to our planet.

Earlier you would see sparrows from your window, now they're hardly visible. Since my husband was in the forces, I spent a lot of time in the Leh Ladhak Valley.

But even that picture perfect place seems to have changed for the worse. I think it is time all of us woke up to this pressing concern.

We don't even get up to switch off the lights these days. We want everything to be remote-controlled.

I have done my bit to highlight this message through my current series. My work always carries a message.

My earlier series was on the unity of religions and the influx of modernisation that is forcing us to forget our roots. Whatever is in my heart becomes an inspiration for me.

I am a very colourful person, so most of my paintings will be vibrant. Like my name Purnima, that means a full moon, there is no darkness in my work.

Nature and adivasis are some of my other favourite subjects. But I believe in art for a cause.

My husband and I have been supporting the children of the javans who have died fighting for our country. A part of the proceeds from my ongoing show will go for this cause.

My heart goes out to these children. I don't like to call them orphans, so I tell them that they are the children of the heroes.

Colour code The cause is very close to my heart and I am concerned about what is happening to our planet. Earlier you would see sparrows from your window, now they're hardly visible.

Since my husband was in the forces, I spent a lot of time in the Leh Ladhak Valley. But even that picture perfect place seems to have changed for the worse.

I think it is time all of us woke up to this pressing concern. We don't even get up to switch off the lights these days.

We want everything to be remote-controlled. I have done my bit to highlight this message through my current series.

My work always carries a message. My earlier series was on the unity of religions and the influx of modernisation that is forcing us to forget our roots.

Charity first Global warming isn't a hot issue with just celebrities and environmentalists. Even artists are warming up to it.

Artist Purnima Shanta Bhattacharya, whose exhibition The Inferno Within is currently on display at the Jehangir Art Gallery till March 24, is the latest artist to have joined the green brigade. She speaks to CS about the need to do so: The cause is very close to my heart and I am concerned about what is happening to our planet.

Earlier you would see sparrows from your window, now they're hardly visible. Since my husband was in the forces, I spent a lot of time in the Leh Ladhak Valley.

But even that picture perfect place seems to have changed for the worse. I think it is time all of us woke up to this pressing concern.

We don't even get up to switch off the lights these days. We want everything to be remote-controlled.

I have done my bit to highlight this message through my current series. My work always carries a message.

My earlier series was on the unity of religions and the influx of modernisation that is forcing us to forget our roots. Whatever is in my heart becomes an inspiration for me.

I am a very colourful person, so most of my paintings will be vibrant. Like my name Purnima, that means a full moon, there is no darkness in my work.

Nature and adivasis are some of my other favourite subjects. But I believe in art for a cause.

My husband and I have been supporting the children of the javans who have died fighting for our country. A part of the proceeds from my ongoing show will go for this cause.

My heart goes out to these children. I don't like to call them orphans, so I tell them that they are the children of the heroes.

Whatever is in my heart becomes an inspiration for me. I am a very colourful person, so most of my paintings will be vibrant.

Like my name Purnima, that means a full moon, there is no darkness in my work. Nature and adivasis are some of my other favourite subjects (less)

The first edition of GIMA will be held in the metropolis on November 10. In addition to 10 non-film and 11 film music categories, there will be an award for the Best Anti-Piracy Initiative.

GIMA has received 940 entries including 223 albums. Six Bollywood films - 3 Idiots , Karthik Calling Karthik , Kaminey , Ishqiya , Love Aaj Kal and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani - have been nominated in the 'Film-Music' category.

Legends and new talent alike are vying for the honours in the 'Non-Film' music category and the nominations include Ustad Rashid Khan, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Dr L Subramaniam, Shubha Mudgal, Lata Mangeshkar, Kailash Kher, Mohit Chauhan and Purnima Chaudhuri (less)

Born in Brighton (United Kingdom), she is an actress-author-media personality-model-producer-songwriter and a former topless model. According to a belief, all sins/evils committed by the Mela pilgrims and their ancestors back to the 88th generation will be washed away forever by a dip in Ganga during these dates and that they will achieve salvation and emerge regenerated and healed.

Its observance is believed to go back to ancient Vedic period and the legend of ?Churning of the Ocean? is associated with it. Termed as biggest spiritual gathering on earth, Kumbh Mela (pot-fete) is being held from January 14 (Makarsankranti) to April 28 (Vaisakh Aadhimaas Purnima) and includes 11 bathing dates in between, at Haridwar, where fast-flowing Ganga enters the plains from Himalaya.

Held four times every twelve years and rotating among Allahabad, Nasik, Haridwar, and Ujjain (all in India); this Mela takes place when the planet Jupiter enters Aquarius and Sun enters Aries (less)