An Indian couple is taking their son to court docket demanding that he and his spouse produce both a grandchild inside a yr or cough up nearly $650,000.
Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad say that they exhausted their financial savings elevating and educating their pilot son and paying for a lavish marriage ceremony.
Now they need payback.
“My son has been married for six years however they’re nonetheless not planning a child. Not less than if we have now a grandchild to spend time with, our ache will develop into bearable,” the couple mentioned of their petition filed with a court docket in Haridwar final week.
The compensation they’re demanding — 50 million rupees — consists of the price of a marriage reception in a five-star lodge, a luxurious automobile price $80,000 and paying for the couple’s honeymoon overseas, the Occasions of India reported Thursday.
The mother and father additionally forked out $65,000 to get their son skilled as a pilot in the USA just for him to return to India unemployed, the paper mentioned.
“We additionally needed to take a mortgage to construct our home and now we’re going by way of a number of monetary hardships. Mentally too we’re fairly disturbed as a result of we live alone,” the couple mentioned of their petition.
The couple’s lawyer Arvind Kumar mentioned the petition will probably be taken up for listening to by the court docket in northern India on Could 17.
India has a robust joint household system with many generations together with grandparents, nephews, aunts and uncles usually dwelling in the identical family.
Nonetheless, lately the development has shifted, with younger {couples} preferring to maneuver away from their mother and father or siblings, and wives — corresponding to on this case — opting to work reasonably than concentrate on having kids and staying at house.
