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Former Maharaja Of Bharatpur Vishwendra Singh Takes Wife, Son To Court Over Property Dispute

Vishwendra Singh has demanded Rs 5 lakh per month from both of them. Jaipur: The former royals of Bharatpur in Rajasthan are engaged in a legal battle. Vishwendra Singh, the former Maharaja of Bharatpur, a successful politician and a one-time minister in the Ashok Gehlot Cabinet, has approached a court in the district asking for maintenance from his wife and son, as he is a senior citizen. Sixty-two-year-old Vishwendra Singh has filed a petition in the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Court in Bharatpur alleging that his son and wife assaulted him and drove him out of his own house. Vishwendra Singh has asked for a maintenance amount because he is elderly and is a heart patient who has suffered COVID-19 twice and has no place to live. Ironically, the royals have properties worth crores in Bharatpur itself though the former Maharaja claims that he was driven out of these properties by his wife, Divya Singh and son Anirudh Singh. Vishwendra Singh said these properties were bequeathed to him by his father, Maharaja Brijendra Singh, through …