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Karnataka HC Questions Wife's Plea for Over ₹6 Lakh as Interim Maintenance

  • The Karnataka High Court expressed surprise at a wife's plea for Rs 6,16,300 per month as interim maintenance from her husband.
  • Justice Lalitha Kanneganti questioned the necessity of such a high amount, suggesting the wife should earn if she wants to spend that much.
  • The court emphasized that Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act is not meant to punish the husband by granting exorbitant maintenance.
  • The wife was asked to provide actual required expenses, as the court found the claimed amounts unreasonable.
  • The wife had initially sought to enhance the trial court's maintenance order of Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakhs per month.

Source: LiveLaw

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GroovyWaffle
GroovyWaffle

Don’t think anyone cares or tracks this number, but a lot of make suicides are driven by these kind of cases and emotional abuse by women.

They want equality but they also want maintenance. And many so called feminists lose their credibility by staying silent on these kind of issues. For context, next step is to appeal to sc who would grant the request.

ZestyPretzel
ZestyPretzel

Oh come on. Men are the ones who got in these laws due to domestic abuse by men right? Who else to blame other than men themselves if you think someone is to be blamed

GroovyWaffle
GroovyWaffle

@Ambani007 “Those men are victims because of some things other men did in the past”. Great so just blame the victims.

Finding a rationalization does not negate that problem does not exist today. Fwiw, making biased laws due to some high profile cases is not the achievement you think it is. Given the number of women with fake cases, Indian society is desensitized to DV/498a cases and rarely take them at face value. Harms the actual victims (women) and the men who never did anything wrong,

Nevertheless, I am pretty sure you are the kind of guy who could never see a woman doing anything wrong.

SillyDonut
SillyDonut
TCS3mo

Is she Deepinder Goyal's 1st wife?

7 lac a month, literally?

FuzzyPanda
FuzzyPanda

That's my Package 😭😭😭

GigglyHamster
GigglyHamster
TCS3mo

Hehehe that’s 6X my package

SillyDonut
SillyDonut
TCS3mo

Mnrega worker will be ashamed seeing this

SqueakyQuokka
SqueakyQuokka

I think even ₹50k is a high monthly maintenance.

GigglyHamster
GigglyHamster
TCS3mo

50K seems fair TBH

SqueakyQuokka
SqueakyQuokka

Probably true, but would depend on their income and lifestyle. Guess it would be helpful to know what % of the husband's income is being paid.

SqueakyCupcake
SqueakyCupcake

the fun fact is that the wife gave the proposal that gucci armani clothes which usually costs 10k a shirt was essential to her.

the judge asked their lawyer to explain as to why a single person needs 6 lakh per month, when they don’t have to tale of children, family or anything!

SqueakyCupcake
SqueakyCupcake

the judge (female) was a chad toh, and she explicitely mentioned, she'll not allow this exploitarion of 24a, unless they come up with actual figure, they'll decline the case altogether on the next hearing!

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