India: In a bizarre case, a man was allowed by a court here to give Rs.55,000 in one and two rupee coins to his wife as maintenance dues for 11 months after his family brought the money filled in seven sacks to the court following his arrest for non-payment.
While the counsel for his wife objected to it, terming it “mental harassment”, the judge allowed the payment but asked the man to count the coins in court to make packets of Rs.1000 each and hand them over to her at the next hearing on June 26, according to lawyers from both sides.
The couple’s divorce case is being heard in a family court. The court had directed the husband, Dashrath Kumawat, to give the maintenance amount of Rs.5000 per month but he was not paying it for the last 11 months.
