The celebrated Indian Administrative Service (IAS) couple Tina Dabi, the first Dalit who topped the UPSC examination in 2015, and Athar Aamir Khan is finally divorced after a family court in Jaipur granted them divorce. The couple had filed for divorce with mutual consent in November.
Tina Dabi became the first person from Dalit community to top the prestigious civil services examination. Athar Aamir Khan had come second in the all-India examination after Tina Dabi.
The IAS officers had got married in Jaipur in 2018 and their wedding was attended by top politicians, including Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and then Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Their ‘straight out of fairy-tale’ story had made headlines back then and the two were quoted as saying that they had fallen in love during their training period.
Tina Dabi and Athar Aamir Khan belong to the Rajasthan cadre and were initially posted in Jaipur. Later, Tina Dabi was posted to Sri Ganganagar as Chief Executive Officer, Zila Parishad
Currently, while Athar Khan is on deputation with the Jammu and Kashmir government now and is posted in Srinagar, Dabi joined as the joint secretary (finance) of the government of Rajasthan in November last year.
