Click to play videoMumbai: It’s a fairytale gone awry. A husband and wife have been denied the right to live together by the Indian government. And what's more, they haven't even been provided with a reason.
Tora Khasgir, the 2002 Asian model of the year married Reza Borhani an Australian national in 2004. It seemed like a fairytale wedding until the government of India stepped in. Tora's husband has been consistently denied a PIO (Person of Indian Origin) Visa by the Foreign Regional Registration Office—a document that could allow him to stay indefinitely in India and a denial that has made the life for this couple a living hell.
"One of the officials at the registration office said, 'Why did you chose to marry an Australian? Didn't get any Indian to marry?" tell Tora.
For the past two years, she has not been able to see her husband even as the Indian officials refused to supply them with any adequate reason for denying the visa.
Frustrated with this official harassment, the family has finally moved the Bombay High Court against the Foreign Regional Registration Office.
"We have filed a case and me and my husband have full faith in the Indian judicial system and we hope justice will be done," says the model
Until the law can cut through the red tape, Tora will have to live her life looking at the pictures where she poses happy with husband—something that has become a memory of the good times she spent with her husband in Australia.
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