Pavan Kalyan’s plea for in-camera hearing rejected

A city court on Tuesday dismissed film actor Pavan Kalyan’s plea for holding the proceedings in-camera in the case filed against him by his estranged wife Nandini.

High drama was witnessed in the Family-cum-Fifth Additional Judge’s Court even before the case came up for hearing at about 10.30 a.m. with several fans of Pavan Kalyan thronging the district court premises and raising slogans against Nandini and her father, K. Chakradhara Rao, a businessman.

A battery of mediapersons present at the court were disappointed as they could not take any byte from Nandini, who lodged a maintenance petition in the family court and another petition charging Pavan Kalyan with bigamy and harassment. Actor Chiranjeevi, brother of Pavan Kalyan, is also one of the respondents in the case.

The media mobbed a luxury car in which a ‘dummy’ Nandini came half-an-hour before the scheduled hearing. Meanwhile, the family members of Nandini brought her in a blue Maruti 800 and made her appear before Judge L.D. Prasad. He accepted Pavan Kalyan’s plea for exemption from an appearance this time on ‘medical grounds’ on a representation submitted through his lawyer, Nagesh Reddy, who came from Hyderabad.

The case is posted for hearing on September 6.

Earlier, he wanted that in-camera proceedings should be conducted as the actor is a famous person and open hearing of a matrimonial dispute would cause inconvenience to him.

The bigamy case by Nandini, in which she accused Pavan Kalyan of marrying actress Renu Desai without nullifying his first marriage, will come up for hearing on August 20.