An Indian couple by names, Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad, have taken their son to court for not giving them grandchildren.
According to The Times of India on Thursday, May 12, the couple said they want their son’s wife to produce either a grandchild for them within a year or pay $650,000.
They said that they exhausted their savings by raising and educating their pilot son and paying for a lavish wedding. Now they want payback.
“My son has been married for six years, but they are still not planning a baby. At least if we have a grandchild to spend time with, our pain will become bearable,” the couple said in their petition filed with a court in Haridwar recently.
The compensation they are demanding includes the cost of a wedding reception in a five-star hotel, a luxury car worth $80,000, and paying for the couple’s honeymoon abroad.
The parents also forked out $65,000 to get their son trained as a pilot in the United States, only for him to return to India unemployed, the paper said.
“We also had to take a loan to build our house, and now we are going through a lot of financial hardships. Mentally too, we are quite disturbed because we are living alone,” the couple said in their petition.
The couple’s lawyer, Arvind Kumar, said the petition will be taken up for hearing by the court in northern India on May 17.
