The Supreme Court has given a very important and unique decision in the husband-wife dispute case. The court has ordered a husband’s employer to deduct Rs 25,000 from his salary and send it directly to his wife. This case is of a husband-wife dispute, in which the wife has been living separately with her daughter for the last four years and the husband has not given her any amount for maintenance in all these years. In such a situation, the court had to give such a decision.
According to the report of Live Law, the bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice KV Vishwanathan was told that the husband and wife are living separately from the year 2022. An interim order was also given by the magistrate in 2024, in which the husband was told to pay Rs 25,000 every month for the maintenance of his wife and his daughter. However, he did not follow this order.
The court was told that the couple has a four-year-old daughter, whom the wife is raising alone. The court was also told that the husband neither cooperated in the maintenance of the girl nor did he ever go to meet her in four years. Earlier, the court had sent both the parties for mediation and had also asked them to fix a lump sum amount if they wanted to end the marriage. Then the magistrate gave an interim order and decided that he would give Rs 25,000 to the wife for the travel expenses to attend the hearing and for the daughter. However, the court found that the husband did not follow the court order.
The Supreme Court was told that the interim order was given in the year 2024 and the husband did not comply with it, hence he owed Rs 1.38 lakh. During the hearing, the husband argued that his salary is Rs 50 thousand per month and he is also going through financial crisis. On this the court asked the husband whether he was ready to pay Rs 2.50 lakh along with the dues, to which he refused.
While delivering the verdict in the case, the court said, ‘In such a situation, we have no other option except to order the employer of the defendant-husband to deduct Rs 25,000 from his salary every month and transfer this amount to the wife’s account through RTGS.’ The court said that this is a matter of the child’s future and her maintenance. The court also emphasized that the girl’s mother is living alone at her uncle’s house and raising her after the death of her father. The court will now hear this matter in April.
