A millionaire husband has been directed by a Delhi court to pay his estranged spouse a whopping Rs four lakh maintenace every month with 15%raise every year for deserting her and their sole minor daughter. However, during the pendency of the maintenance petition, the husband filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in January 2011. She then moved the trial court for maintenance on August 4, 2011 and a magisterial court on February 8, 2013 granted her a maintenance of Rs 1.25 lakh a month. In the proceedings before the high court, she was granted a maintenance of Rs 75,000 per month on March 5, 2013. While seeking Rs seven lakh per month maintenance, the woman’s counsel had said the husband “had a family business of net worth of Rs 921.28 crore.

Source: Hindustan Times August 27, 2017 04:41 UTC