Tina Dabi and Athar Khan got married in Delhi in April 2018.
New Delhi:
Tina Dabi and Athar Aamir Khan, the agents of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), whose wedding made headlines in 2018 and attended by top politicians, are now divorced.
A family court in Jaipur has granted their divorce petition.
Tina Davi topped the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) government service exam in 2015, the same year Athar Khan was ranked second. Their romance and marriage came straight out of a movie script.
The two filed for divorce by mutual consent in family court in November, according to reports.
Tina Dabi and Athar Khan are officers of the Rajasthan cadre and were both stationed in Jaipur. Athar Khan is now on deputation to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and is stationed in Srinagar.
A graduate of Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi, Tina Dabi came into the limelight after becoming the first Dalit to pass the prestigious civil service exam, that too on the first attempt.
She met Athar Khan, who is from Anantnag in Kashmir, at the Human Resources and Training Department in Delhi during their training.
The two married in Delhi in April 2018.
Their wedding reception in Delhi was attended by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Union ministers and then Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
The interfaith wedding had made headlines and a reaction on social media at a time when the country was embroiled in a debate over communal discord and “love jihad,” the phrase used by the right to describe what they call a ruse by Muslim men. to bring in Hindu women and force them to convert.
But Ms Dabi had said she was not affected by the uproar, that her marriage was above religious divides.
