Sisters demand annual maintenance of Rs 4 crore from father

Two sisters have moved a Delhi court seeking a maintenance of over Rs four crore per year from their father to pursue studies and meet daily expenses, saying they had left home in 2010 due to harassment meted out by their parents.
The duo, native of Ludhiana in Punjab, filed their plea before Metropolitan Magistrate Monika Saroha, alleging that they were subjected to torture, harassment, beating and all kinds of abuse, when they were residing with their parents.
The younger sister, preparing for her civil service exam, told the judge that "they are students and they have no source of income to maintain them".

"The petitioners (the two sister) are unable to maintain themselves as they have no source of income and they do not possess any movable and immovable properties in their name and respondent no.1 (father) is duty bound to maintain his daughters who are students.
"The respondent intentionally, wilfully and deliberately neglected to maintain the sisters and he has caused economic domestic violence against the complainants," their Advocate Shaan Mohan said.
The court has issued notice to the father seeking his response by January next year.

In their plea, the girls told the court that the trouble began when the elder sister, a final year B.Com student, told her father, a shopkeeper, that she wanted to pursue MBA.

The younger one, a first-year B.Com student, too wanted to study for an MBA. But their father threatened to withdraw both of them from college, the petition said.
The counsel also said the parents should be prohibited from committing any act of domestic violence.
"The girl's father should be stopped from repeating any acts of physical and mental abuse, sexual abuse, threatening, lodging false cases or sending friends to threaten them and their friends," Mohan said.