Borrow or beg, give money to wife, Supreme Court gets angry when husband tells her salary is Rs 9,000: – ..

News India Live, Digital Desk: During court proceedings, husbands often try to understate their income so that they have to pay less alimony. But the Supreme Court has made it clear in a similar case that it is the legal and moral responsibility of the husband to feed his wife and children, from which he cannot escape by making the excuse of ‘low earning’.

What is the matter? (12,000 vs 9,000)

A lower court had ordered the husband to pay his wife every month. Rs 12,000 Give as alimony. The husband approached the Supreme Court against this order and argued:

Husband’s claim: He works as a daily wage laborer and earns only Rs 325 a day.

Salary Argument: He told the court that his total monthly income was approximately Rs 9,000 So, how can he pay Rs 12,000?

Supreme Court’s sharp comment: “Impossible and unbelievable”

The bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta expressed strong objection to this claim of the husband. The main points of the court were as follows:

Argument for minimum wage: The court said that in today’s time no company pays less than the minimum wage. The claim of earning Rs 9,000 is not acceptable.

“Beg or borrow”: Justice Mehta said in a strict tone that it is your responsibility to maintain your wife. For this you will have to raise money from somewhere – whether you have to borrow or do something else.

Company warned of summons: When the husband took the name of his company (Hindustan Auto Agency), the court asked to summon that company itself to find out why they were paying such low salary.

“Keep your wife with you or pay for it”

The bench also made a practical suggestion that if the husband is unable to pay maintenance, he should keep his wife with him with dignity so that she can live at home and does not have to bear separate expenses. However, the husband alleged that the wife had also made complaints against his parents, which the court did not consider as a ground to avoid the responsibility of maintenance.