India, April 2 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by actor Anita Advani seeking recognition of her relationship with the late superstar Rajesh Khanna as one that was "in the nature of marriage" and thereby seeking the title of his "widow".

Rejecting Advani' s plea against Khanna's estranged wife Dimple Kapadia, daughter Twinkle Khanna and son-in-law Akshay Kumar, a single-judge bench of Justice Sharmila U Deshmukh held that such a status could not be granted when the deceased actor's marriage with his legally wedded wife, Kapadia, was "subsisting" (not dissolved by divorce, annulment or death of one of the spouses).

"The requirement that the parties must be qualified to enter into a legal marriage, including be...