New Delhi: A city resident has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay Rs 8,000 as monthly compensation to his wife, allegedly turned out of the house by him after nearly 33 years of their marriage.
Metropolitan Magistrate Monika Saroha ordered compensation for the woman, expressing surprise that the woman, married in 1978 and allegedly turned out of the house by her husband in 2010, did not raise voice against any violence in past 33 years.
"It is little surprising that after almost 33 years of marriage, this is the first time the complainant (woman) has ever raised her voice against any violence being committed by the respondent (man). There is no record of any previous litigation or even PCR calls by the petitioner wife," the court said.
"As he has to maintain himself as well as the woman, he is directed to pay Rs 8,000 per month to her as maintenance," it added, assessing the man's monthly income as Rs 25,000.
In her plea for maintenance, the woman had told the court that she was married in 1978 and continued living with her husband till 2010, when he turned her out after her brothers refused to meet his demand for dowry.
Maintaining that she has two sons, both settled and working as engineers, the woman said she was now residing with her brothers to whom her husband had also sent e-mails, asking them to advice her to give him divorce. She also accused her husband of treating her cruelly.
Denying his wife's claim, the man said she had deserted him and was not ready to live with him. He also denied that he had sent e-mails to her brother, saying his sons might have sent them to her.
The court, however, said in view of the e-mails placed on record by the woman, which the man has admitted to have been sent through his account (although he alleged that his account was hacked), prima facie case appears to be made out against him.
"At this stage, in view of the e-mails on record prima facie it does not appear that she has willingly left the company of her husband. Therefore, till the entire truth is brought out by way of evidence, the estranged wife living separately is prima facie entitled to be maintained by her husband," the magistrate said.
The court also termed it "surprising" that no complaint was ever lodged by "the fully educated young men against the harassment of their mother by their father".
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