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A couple in the Indian state of Uttarakhand has taken their son to
court, asking him to either pay back the $650,000 they claim to have
invested in him or give them a grandchild within a year.
Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad filed a highly unusual lawsuit against their
own son on the grounds of “mental harassment”. They claim to have
invested substantial sums of money into his education and professional
training over the years, helped him financially when he couldn’t find a
job, and arranged and paid for his wedding in 2016. In return, they were
expecting a “grandchild to play with” during their retirement years,
only their son didn’t deliver as expected, so now the couple is taking
legal action against him.
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“My son has been married for six years but they are still not planning a
baby,” Mr Prasad told The National. “At least if we have a grandchild to
spend time with, our pain will become bearable.”
62-year-old pensioner Sanjeev Prasad claims to have exhausted his
family’s life savings on his son throughout the years, including on a
$65,000 pilot training course in the United States, on his lavish 2016
wedding and subsequent honeymoon in Thailand, and on an $80,000 car,
among other things. All they asked in return from their 35-year-old son,
Sagar, and his wife was a grandchild, which they failed to deliver.
“We killed our dreams to raise him,” the couple reportedly wrote in
their petition. “We even took a loan of 2 million rupees ($25,800) for
his education. But despite all our efforts, my son and his wife have
caused mental torture by not giving us a grandchild. Society also
questions us, causing further pain.”
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According to the couple’s lawyer, Arvind Kumar Srivastava, the parents
are now looking for a repayment of their claimed expenditure on their
son, 25 million rupees, plus an extra 25 million rupees as damages. Or,
Sagar and his wife, Shubhangi, could just get pregnant within a year and
the lawsuit would be dropped.
“They have demanded the money because of mental cruelty,” the Prasad’s
lawyer said. “It is a dream of every parent to become a grandparent.
They had been waiting for years to become grandparents. They had been
trying to convince the son and his wife but they paid no heed to their
demands. They are heartbroken that they will die without seeing their
grandchild.”
While this is definitely one of the most unusual lawsuits we’ve ever
featured on Oddity Central, it’s definitely in good company. Remember
the parents who sued their 30-year-old son for refusing to move out? How
about the 41-year-old man who sued his parents for lifelong financial
support? But the title of most bizarre family lawsuit ever has to go to
the man suing his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.
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