Published 30th May, 2022

By Lolade Olu-Ojegbeje

Sanjeev Ranjan Prasad and Sadhana Prasad, two Indian parents, have asked their son and his wife to pay $650,000 as damages for not showing interest in trying to have a grandchild after six years of marriage.

According to New York Times, the Indian parents decided to sue their son and daughter-in-law after spending lavishly on their wedding and waiting endlessly on them to have a grandchild in return.

Both Sanjeev and Sadhana are now demanding that their son and daughter-in-law produce a grandchild within a year or pay $650,000 in damages.

An initial hearing on the suit is scheduled for Monday in a court in northern India.

“I feel very sorry for them because I am also an Indian and I can understand their pain. This is an Indian parent thing,” Arvind Srivastava, the couple’s lawyer said.

The Prasads say that in addition to spending their savings on their son’s $65,000 pilot training program and other expenses in the United States, they also supported him for another two years by paying for his Audi (automobile), his 2016 hotel wedding and his honeymoon in Thailand.

The parents also added that they had been patient enough with their son and daughter-in law over the lack of offspring.

“Even after two years, they never thought of having children and we left the decision to them,” Sanjeev, 61, a retired government official, said.

Srivastava said the Prasads eventually became so despondent that they became constantly ashamed whenever they saw other people drop off their grandchildren at bus stops.

“The court filing accuses their son and his wife, who live in the southern city of Hyderabad, of neglecting their “duty to give them the pleasure of having either a grandson or a granddaughter,” the lawyer added.

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