Published on : 12 Nov 2025, 2:19 pm 4 min read

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday sharply increased the maintenance payable by a Pune-based businessman to his divorced wife after finding that the man had concealed his financial strength and misled the court.

A Bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sundaresan raised the monthly maintenance from ₹50,000 to ₹3.5 lakh, observing that the husband’s claim of earning only ₹6 lakh a year was “farcical” given his family’s sprawling real estate and finance empire worth over ₹1,000 crore.

The husband was ordered to deposit ₹42 lakh as a year's arrears within four weeks.

"He has not come to Court with clean hands. There is not only material suppression of his financial strength to undermine the application of legal principles

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