A bank manager has been directed by a Delhi court to pay Rs 10,000 per month as maintenance to his minor son, who has been living with his estranged wife.
Additional Sessions Judge Anil Kumar dismissed the man's appeal filed against a magisterial court order directing him to pay the amount to his son, who is nearly three-year-old.
"Keeping in view status of the parties and monthly and annual income of the man, I am of the opinion that interim maintenance granted by the trial court to the minor cannot be said to be excessive.
"There is no infirmity or irregularity or illegality in the order passed by the trial court for grant of interim maintenance to the minor. Hence, the order of August 31, 2013 qua the minor is upheld," the judge said, adding that the man's appeal was without any merits.
While upholding the maintenance amount, the court noted that the man, who was a manager at Reserve Bank of India, was earning more than Rs 53,000 per month.
The court also disposed of the appeal of the woman who was denied alimony by the trial court on the ground that she was employed and was earning.
The sessions court said the order of the trial court was a non speaking order regarding the woman's plea for alimony and remanded the case back to the magistrate with a direction to decide the interim maintenance application.
The man, a resident of Vaishali in Ghaziabad, said in his appeal that his aged parents are dependent on him and he has to give them Rs 10,000 per month and it is the joint liability of his and his estranged wife to take care of their minor son.
The woman, a resident of Dwarka, had said in her plea that that she had got married to the man in January 2011 and huge amount was spent by her parents on her marriage.
She had said her in-laws used to taunt her and when she became pregnant, her husband refused to take care of her and was ill-treated by them. She had left her matrimonial house during her pregnancy itself and has been residing with her son at her parental house, she had said.
