Lawyer gives wife ₹25,000 maintenance in coins, woman cries foul
Chandigarh : A woman, in her 30s, broke down and lashed out at her lawyer husband after he handed over her coins worth ₹24,600 as monthly maintenance in a divorce case.
The high drama took place during a trial in the court of additional district and sessions judge Rajnish K Sharma on Tuesday.
Unable to control her emotions at what she called “sheer harassment”, the woman told the court how she got the majority of the monthly maintenance of ₹25,000 in the form of ₹1 and ₹2 coins. Only ₹400 were in ₹100 notes .
The matter was adjourned for July 27 so that the money could be counted. The husband is an advocate in the Punjab and Haryana High Court .
It was in 2014 that the husband filed for separation and later divorce. Two months back, the court directed him to give a monthly maintenance of ₹25,000 to the woman.
After he failed to do so, the woman moved the high court, which directed the husband to pay ₹50,000. Finally, he paid a month’s amount to his estranged wife in court, but in coins.
Infuriated, the woman said it was her husband’s another way to torture and harass her. “This is a clear mockery of law,” she said outside the courtroom. She refused to accept her husband’s argument that he did not have the money.
“He is a practising advocate and has high-profile clients. In addition to this, he has a number of properties to his name,” she said. Meanwhile, the husband justified his move, stating that it’s nowhere written in what denomination the maintenance money has to paid.
courtesy : hindustantimes.com
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
