Tina Dabi and
Athar Ali Khan, the IAS topper couple whose wedding made the news in 2018, are
now divorced. A family court in Jaipur granted their divorce.

Tina Dabi and
Athar Ali Khan’s romance was straight out of a movie script. Tina had topped
the UPSC Civil Services Examination in 2015 and Athar had come second.

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The two got into a
relationship when they met at the Department of Personnel and Training in New
Delhi during their training. They got married in April, 2018.

The IAS couple’s
wedding reception was attended by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, then Lok Sabha
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and other Union Ministers.

In November last year,
the couple applied for a mutual divorce.

Both Tina Dabi and
Athar Ali Khan are IAS officers in the Rajasthan cadre. They were posted in Jaipur.
Dabi cracked the civil services in her first attempt and was the first Dalit to
do so in UPSC history.

Athar Ali Khan, who
is from Kashmir, is currently on deputation with the Jammu and Kashmir
government and is working from Srinagar.

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Tina and Athar’s interfaith wedding had generated interest as well as caused a backlash with a section of right wingers on social media calling their marriage an example of so-called “love jihad”.

“Love jihad” is a phrase used by detractors to describe what they allege is an act of manipulation by Muslim men to woo Hindu women and force them to convert.

Tina Dabi and Athar Ali’s marital problems came to the fore when Tina Dabi removed ‘Khan’ from her surname on social media. Later Athar Ali Khan reportedly unfollowed Tina Dabi on social media, reports Times Now.