Late music composer Wajid Khan’s wife, clinical hypnotherapist Kamalrukh Khan, has spoken up about why she has chosen to go public with the pressure she has faced throughout her marriage to convert her religion. Wajid Khan passed away earlier this year of a cardiac arrest and Kamlarukh says now the effort is on to refuse inheritance due to her children.
On Saturday, she had shared a note about being harassed by her in-laws to convert to Islam. She has two children with Wajid — a 16 years old daughter and a nine-year- old son. In her note, Kamalrukh said that she and Wajid were ‘college sweethearts’ who married under the Special Marriages Act that allowed them to wed while practising their own religions. However, after he and his family exerted pressure on her to change her religion, it caused a rift in her relationship, bringing them to the brink of divorce.
Talking to Times of India, Kamalrukh said that she…