On Saturday evening, Rhea Pillai recorded her statement before the Bandra Magistrate Court in a domestic violence (DV) petition filed against her estranged partner, tennis player Leander Paes. This follows last week’s statement by Pillai, a former model, when she told the court that she had married Paes not once, but twice, in 2005 and then again in 2008. In a cross examination by Paes’ la-wyer Aabad Ponda, Pillai said that she is married to Paes, and that it is mentioned in the DV petition. She told court that she married Paes the second time in 2008 because her divorce decree got through and they decided to revisit their vows.

Leander Paes