The court rejected the argument that the wife’s purported monthly income of Rs 3.5 lakh disentitled her and their daughters from interim maintenance
Rejecting the argument that the wife’s purported monthly income of Rs 3.5 lakh disentitled her and their daughters from interim maintenance, the court said the family’s standard of living before separation was relevant. The wife approached the magistrate’s court under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, seeking interim monetary relief in 2022. The magistrate’s court passed an interim order on Feb 21, 2026, directing the husband to pay Rs 4 lakh per month to the wife and daughters, along with costs of Rs 10,000. The husband challenged that order before the sessions court, arguing that the trial court had wrongly relied on income-tax returns showing gross annual income of about Rs 3 crore, without properly considering statutory deductions, tax, provident fund, gratuity, loan liabilities and family responsibilities. 4,00.000/- per month as directed by the learned trial court is not exorbitant, but it is rightly granted considering the status and livelihood and standard of living of both the sides and more particularly, the appellant husband has the financial capacity and potential to bear the same,” the court observed.
“There is nothing to disbelieve or discard the income which is considered by the learned trial court of the appellant, resulting that granting of interim maintenance at the rate of Rs 4,00,000 per month as directed by the learned trial court is not exorbitant, but it is rightly granted considering the status and livelihood and standard of living of both the sides and more particularly, the appellant husband has the financial capacity and potential to bear the same,” the court observed. The court also accepted that the wife was maintaining the twin daughters and that the father had the financial capacity to contribute substantially. The wife claimed that the husband had substantial income and earned crores annually, while the expenses for the children and her, including education, housing, food, medical needs and general living costs, were high. The wife also claimed that the husband had concealed true income and assets. “There is nothing to disbelieve or discard the income which is considered by the learned trial court of the appellant resulting that granting of interim maintenance at the rate of Rs.
Mumbai: Observing that children of a father earning Rs 3 crore annually must not become “financial collateral damage” in a marital dispute, the sessions court upheld a Rs 4 lakh monthly interim maintenance order against a 45-year-old wealth management company’s senior vice president. ” the pay slips he submitted contradicted him, proving his senior VP status and a multi-lakh monthly salary While the father filed an affidavit claiming he earned just Rs one lakh per month as a standard “wealth manager. Noting this deliberate suppression of material facts, the judge confirmed the Rs 4 lakh payout to ensure his estranged wife and five-year-old twin daughters are protected from “economic deprivation and social humiliation”.
Dismissing the executive’s appeal, the court pointed to his attempt to conceal his true income.