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Mumbai: Businessman ordered in domestic violence case to pay Rs 1.5 lakh monthly – Times of India

MUMBAI: A magistrate’s court has ordered a businessman to pay a monthly interim maintenance of Rs 1.5 lakh to his 36-year-old estranged wife, a pilot, after she told the court that she lost her job due to ill health caused by repeated harassment by the man. The husband will have to pay her a total of around Rs 42 lakh in interim maintenance arrears-from the time she submitted the complaint and sought relief in July 2018.
Seeking interim maintenance, the Mumbai-based woman told the court that while her husband’s annual income was around Rs 18 crore, she was now jobless and dependent on her father.
The court said in a recent order that even if “it is assumed that the applicant (wife) is a working woman… it is the moral duty of the respondent (husband) to maintain” her. “Considering day to day necessities, costs… and earning source of the respondent, the applicant is entitled for interim maintenance.”
The court also restrained the husband and his family from committing any acts of domestic violence against the woman, who had submitted a plea under the Domestic Violence Act in 2018. She said she married the man in 2016 after a long courtship. She further said her father bore the marriage expenses and also fulfilled all demands for gifts. She said that after the wedding, she moved into the home of her in-laws but was shocked to find that her husband suffered from severe alcoholism. The woman alleged that her husband and in laws illtreated, harassed, tortured and abused her. She said that on one occasion, her husband twisted her hand and pushed her on the floor. She also submitted that her husband and in-laws used to demand expensive items when she went on her flights. She said she was forced to leave the house in 2017.
The woman also lodged an FIR against her husband and in-laws under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. She alleged that the husband repeatedly forced her to have unnatural sex because of which she suffered a sexually transmitted disease. Her husband and inlaws denied the allegations, alleging that the woman never lived with them and instead chose to live with her father. They said she wanted her husband to move to a place of her choice. The husband also submitted that his factory was running losses and the woman was not entitled to the money.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/mumbai-businessman-ordered-in-domestic-violence-case-to-pay-rs-1-5-lakh-monthly/articleshow/79108688.cms