Man asked to pay promised amount of Rs 5 L to estranged wife

A man has been directed by a Delhi court to pay Rs five lakh to his estranged wife which he had promised to give her in a prenuptial agreement in case he abandoned the woman and her five children from first marriage for any reason.
Additional District Judge Reetesh Singh asked Ghaziabad resident Sanjeev Kumar to pay the amount to his wife whom he had married after death of her first husband.
Seeking the amount agreed to in the agreement, the woman alleged that the man had married her only to usurp her property and abandoned her after having illicit relations with another woman.

"The version of the plaintiff (woman) in her plaint and evidence has gone unrebutted and unchallenged. By way of an agreement the defendant (man) had undertaken to pay Rs five lakh to her if he left her company or abandoned her for any reason whatsoever.
"In view of the unrebutted testimony of the plaintiff, suit of the plaintiff is decreed. The plaintiff is granted decree for Rs five lakh besides costs of the suit," the court said.
The man was proceeded exparte by the court after he failed to appear before it even after service of summons.
The woman, a resident of North east Delhi, had approached the court saying she knew Kumar since 1995 and in 1998 after the death of her first husband, a close friend of Kumar, she was left with her five children.

She said the man developed closeness with her and offered to marry her saying he would bear all her expenses. She said they got married in a temple in September 2000 and Kumar had executed an agreement in which it was mentioned that he would pay her Rs five lakh if he ever deserted her for any reason.