{"id":391503,"date":"2026-09-05T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:54:14","slug":"indian-woman-sues-ex-in-laws-in-orlando-court-accuses-them-of-spending-her-nearly-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391503\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian woman sues ex-in-laws in Orlando court, accuses them of spending her nearly $2M"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fight involving Indian culture, money and broken promises has landed in Orlando federal court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sailaja Dacha is suing her former in-laws after she accused them of stealing her money after her husband\u2019s death. In 2011, Sailaja Dacha married their son, Raghuram, in India.\u00a0Seven years later, Raghuram died. The lawsuit doesn\u2019t say how.<\/p>\n

Living in Maryland, the widow inherited $2 million, as well as $160,000 from Raghuram\u2019s life insurance.<\/p>\n

She received the money in 2020 just as she was ready to move on, and Raghuram\u2019s parents offered to help her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Indian culture, arranged marriages are common. In 2020, the search was on for Plaintiff\u2019s new husband,\u201d said her lawsuit filed last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUsharani Dacha and Harinathrao R. Dacha sat down with the Plaintiff for the purpose of providing her financial and family advice. Given their extremely close relationship with the Plaintiff, Harinathrao R. Dacha took it upon himself to advise the Plaintiff as follows: \u2018We do not know what kind of husband you will get, in case if you guys divorced, money will be 50-50. So, to protect the money, we will give you two options: The first option is writing prenup agreement. The second option is transferring the money back to us. Once we make sure that you get good husband and settle happily with the kids, after five years of your marriage, we will transfer the money back to you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sailaja Dacha said she didn\u2019t want to make a prenup with a new husband, so she trusted her ex-in-laws and gave $1.959 million to them, expecting them to return it.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit described Sailaja Dacha\u2019s emotional vulnerability after losing her first husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaintiff depended on the Defendants to advise, counsel, and protect her. The Plaintiff was fragile and weak after her husband passed away, and uneducated about finances or divorce,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

In 2021, she remarried, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

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On her five-year wedding anniversary with her new husband, she contacted her former in-laws living in Orange County for the money but they ignored her request, she said.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit said her former father-in-law told her they spent all the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cInjustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise,\u201d Sailaja Dacha said in her lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Her lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

Her ex-in-laws could not be reached for comment and do not have an attorney listed in the court case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fight involving Indian culture, money and broken promises has landed in Orlando federal court. Sailaja Dacha is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8219,5507,833,139,141,140,156523],"class_list":["post-391503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-court","tag-death","tag-lawsuit","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sailaja-dacha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}