Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has sharply increased the monthly maintenance payable by a Pune-based businessman to his divorced wife — from Rs 50,000 to Rs 3.5 lakh — after finding that he had concealed his financial strength and misled the court.

Court Observes False Claims Of Low Income

A bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sundaresan observed that the husband’s claim of earning only Rs 6 lakh annually was “farcical,” given his family’s sprawling real estate and finance empire worth over Rs 1,000 crore. He has been directed to deposit Rs 42 lakh as a year’s arrears within four weeks.

Court Says Husband Misled Judiciary With False Statements

“He has not come to court with clean hands. There is not only material suppression of his financial strength to undermine the applic

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