Bengaluru Mercedes owner calls Rs 20,000 maintenance too much: HC says a man who can maintain a Benz can't call the amount excessive; divorce denied

A Bengaluru man who owns a Mercedes-Benz walked into the Karnataka High Court hoping to end his marriage and walk away from a maintenance order he called excessive. He walked out with neither.

The court dismissed his divorce appeal, confirmed the Rs 20,000 monthly maintenance he had been fighting, and pointedly noted that a man who could run a Mercedes-Benz had little ground to call that amount a burden.