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Kumar Sanu has sued his ex-wife Rita Bhattacharya for defamation. Rita Bhattacharya on Kumar Sanu’s defamation suit<\/p>\n
In a conversation with Bombay Times<\/a>, Rita said, \u201cI\u2019m shocked. He is filing a case against the mother of his three grown-up sons. The paper he has sent me, he is asking for 50 crores. I don\u2019t know how Sanu is dreaming that I have so much money. It is really sad.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanu and Rita separated in 1994. They have three sons, the youngest of whom is 31. Rita has said that the legal drama is affecting their lives as well. \u201cI will see him in the court. And I will request Sanu with folded hands \u2014 just try to be a good human being and be the father of my three children. If you can\u2019t love us, at least don\u2019t disturb us and don\u2019t harass us anymore,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Kumar Sanu’s defamation case<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Kumar Sanu filed a defamation suit against Rita before the Bombay High Court, alleging that her recent interviews and remarks on social media have damaged his reputation. In interviews with Viral Bhayani and Film Window, Rita had alleged that Sanu had mistreated her during her pregnancy, depriving her of food and denying her medical care. Sanu\u2019s legal team has countered, calling the allegations false and malicious.<\/p>\n The suit also says that their 2001 divorce agreement stipulated that neither party would make allegations against the other, and Rita is in breach of this contract. Rita and Sanu tied the knot in 1986, but they separated seven years later. Their divorce was finalised in 2001.<\/p>\n See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u20b950 crore defamation suit against her: ‘If you cant love us, don\u2019t harass us’”> \u20b950 crore defamation suit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,179106,179109,179107,179108],"class_list":{"0":"post-363539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kumar-sanu","11":"tag-kumar-sanu-defamation","12":"tag-kumar-sanu-ex-wife","13":"tag-rita-bhattacharya"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764499390_814_story_trending@2x.png\" "\\"\\"\/")
News<\/a> \/ Entertainment<\/a> \/ Bollywood<\/a> \/ Kumar Sanu’s ex wife breaks silence on his \u20b950 crore defamation suit against her: ‘If you cant love us, don\u2019t harass us’ <\/p>\n