'Wearing The Smile You Gave Me..', IAS Officer Tina Dabi After Engagement With Fellow Officer

Tina Dabi's fiancé Pradeep Gawande, who is a 2013-batch IAS officer, also posted a photo with Tina where both are wearing red colour attire

Tina Dabi and fiancé Pradeep Gawande (Instagram Image)

New Delhi:  Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Tina Dabi, who shot to limelight for being the first Dalit to top the prestigious civil services exam in 2016 in first attempt, has got engaged to IAS Officer Pradeep Gawande.

Dabi shared the news of engagement on social media on Monday. “I am wearing the smile you (PradeepGawande) gave me, fiance,” Dabi wrote on Instagram, the photo-sharing app.

Dabi is active on social media and amassed quite a following on the photo-sharing app with over 1.4 million followers as of now.

Her fiancé Pradeep Gawande, who is a 2013-batch IAS officer, also posted a photo with Tina where both are wearing red colour attire. Tina is wearing a red saree while he is complementing her in a matching red kurta and pants. “Together, is my favourite place to be!,” he wrote in his Instagram post.

Going by the livehindustan report, the couple is expected to get married on April 22 in Jaipur. Pradeep Gawande is three years senior to Dabi, and currently serving as Director, Archeology & Museums, Rajasthan, according to the report

Dabi, a graduate of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College topped the prestigious civil services exam while Athar Khan secured second. Dabi was previously married to Khan. The couple hogged the limelight in 2016 when Tina announced her relationship through a social media post and remained in the news ever since. Athar Aamir Khan secured second position in the UPSC all-India examination which Tina Dabi topped.

Both got married in April 2018 in Kashmir's Pahalgam, and the wedding reception in Delhi was attended by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Union Ministers and then Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

However, both announced separation in November 2020. Their divorce was finalised in August 2021 after an order passed by a Jaipur court.