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Karisma, Sanjay get one more week to bury the hatchet

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday gave one more week to Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor and her estranged husband Sanjay Kapur to continue their "peace talks" to settle their marital discord "in the interest of their six-moth-old daughter Samaira''.

Justice Mukul Mudgal extended the time for taking up for hearing Mr. Kapur's petition challenging the issuance of a passport to Samaira without his consent to enable the two to reach an amicable settlement to their dispute.

Mr. Justice Mudgal adjourned the hearing when counsel for both parties informed the Court that the talks had been progressing in the desired direction but more time was required to thrash out an amicable solution.

Allowing the plea by both parties, Mr. Justice Mudgal posted the next hearing of the petition to September 23 hoping that the couple would on that date come to the Court with an agreed formula to bury the hatchet.

The estranged couple began the "peace talks" following a word of advice from Mr. Justice Mudgal last month that they should talk out their dispute in the interest of the baby.

Counsel for Karisma and Sanjay had on August 30 given a joint assurance to Mr. Justice Mudgal in his chamber that they had agreed to talk following a half-an-hour-long cordial talk on the disputes and the terms and conditions on which it would further progress.

However, counsel for Karisma had at that time made it clear in the open court before he went in for the talks that at this stage his client was in favour of a "limited settlement, not for a complete disposal of the matter''.

"The Court is interested in an amicable settlement of the discord for the welfare of the child and it wants no hurt feeling and recrimination. Reconciliation is the best way to settle a matrimonial dispute,'' Mr. Justice Mudgal had suggested to both parties.

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