Jaipur News: Seller mints coin ‘charade’ for maintenance of Rs 55,000, court demands 55 bags of Rs 1,000 each | Jaipur News

This story is from June 21, 2023

A seller from Jaipur who wanted to aggravate matters with his estranged wife by giving her 280 kg of change as maintenance arrears… Read more A seller from Jaipur who wanted to aggravate matters with his estranged wife by giving her 280 kg of change as maintenance arrears The maintenance arrears handed over were eventually repaid in his own coin. Read Less JAIPUR: A Jaipur seller tried to aggravate matters with his estranged wife by handing her 280 kg in loose change as maintenance arrears were eventually paid back in his own coin.

A family court saw through Dashrath Kumawat’s farce of settling his Rs 55,000 debt to his wife Seema through the coins – Re 1 and Rupee 2 – packed in seven bags and his lawyer’s insistence that they be considered “legal tender.” “must be accepted. .

The court on June 17 ordered Dashrath to count the coins and make 55 packets of Rs 1,000 each – all at the next hearing on June 26. He can seek help if the task seems “too difficult”.

Seema’s lawyer Ramprakash Kumawat was not happy. “Firstly, the husband has not paid maintenance for 11 months. Now he has brought coins worth Rs 55,000 to harass his wife. Just counting will take 10 days,” Ramprakash fumed. Dashrath’s lawyer Raman Gupta tried to allay suspicions of harassment tactics by claiming his client was a street vendor who was often paid in coins. Few believed this argument.

It all started when the court issued a recovery order against Dashrath after Seema complained that he had evaded payment of maintenance.

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The couple married about ten years ago and have a five-year-old daughter who stays with her father. The problems started after 3-4 years of marriage. Dashrath filed for divorce in the family court and the maintenance was set in an interim order.

Dashrath’s lawyer Gupta claimed that he could not pay as he was facing financial difficulties. But the court issued the return order, which was converted into an arrest warrant.

Jaipur police arrested Dashrath and produced him in court on June 17. On the same day, his relatives reached the court with the bags of coins. The court granted him bail on a surety bond of Rs 1 lakh.

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