MUMBAI: A UK chartered accountant has been ordered to pay Rs43 lakh as maintenance arrears to his ailing and bedridden estranged wife. The woman had filed a domestic violence complaint before the magistrate’s court.
The accused tried to claim that he was unemployed and showed his income as nil. “From the statements of the two sides, it is not believable that the qualified respondent (husband) residing and working in a city in the UK had no income of his own. Whereas the documents filed by the applicant (wife) appear believable that the respondent is earning an income of £34,953 (Rs33.48 lakh),” the court said.
