Anita Advani’s decade-long legal battle seeking recognition as the late Rajesh Khanna’s wife has come to an end after the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear her appeal. The bench dismissed the matter as “luxury litigation”.

A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale found no reason to take up Advani’s plea, which challenged an April 1 ruling by the Bombay High Court. “This is luxury litigation,” the bench remarked, according to PTI.

Advani, who says she was with Khanna during the final years of his life until his death in 2012, told the court she was “seeking dignity”. As PTI noted, Her counsel argued that the civil suit seeking a declaration of marriage was based on “some sense of dignity”.

The case had already been dismissed by two lower courts. In 2017, a Dindoshi sessions court in Mumbai rejected her civil suit seeking a declaration of marriage. The suit was filed after the Bollywood actor died in July 2012, aged 69.…