Woman is asked to give `20,000, car to husband
In an unusual order, the Delhi high court has asked a financially well-off woman to pay `20,000 as monthly maintenance to her 55-year-old husband facing penury. Upholding a lower court’s order, Justice G.S. Sistani asked the wife to pay maintenance to her husband under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
Interestingly, the court also told the woman to part with one of her four cars for the use by her husband. Dismissing the wife’s appeal against Karkardooma district court’s order for sustenance allowance to the man, the HC came to the aid of the east Delhi resident. Justice Sistani insisted on the woman to pay a “respectable” maintenance to her husband, relying upon her IT returns for several years showing that her annual income touched over `1crore from the lucrative business of running a hostel for students in Greater Noida. The court passed the order after accepting the argument of Bhupendra Pratap Singh, the lawyer of the man, that it was he who had set up the hostel for students in 2002 and made his wife its proprietor but she and their two children had thrown him out of the house and even grabbed his business.
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