Jaipur news: Vendor mints coin ‘charade’ for Rs.55,000 alimony, court demands 55 sacks of Rs.1,000 each | Jaipur News

JAIPUR: A Jaipur vendor who wanted to aggravate matters with his estranged wife by handing her 280kg in loose change as alimony arrears were eventually paid back in his own coin.
A family court saw through Dashrath Kumawat’s farce of settling his 55,000 rupee debt to his wife Seema through the coins – Re 1 and rupees 2 – packed in seven sacks and his lawyer’s insistence that they were “legal tender.” ‘ would have to be accepted. .
The court ordered Dashrath on June 17 to count the coins and make 55 packets of 1,000 rupees each – all at the next hearing on June 26. He can ask for help if the task seems “too difficult”.
Seema’s lawyer, Ramprakash Kumawat, was not pleased. “First, the husband has not paid alimony for 11 months. Now he has brought 55,000 rupees worth of coins to molest his wife. Just counting will take 10 days,” Ramprakash fretted. Dashrath’s lawyer, Raman Gupta, tried to allay suspicions of a harassment tactic 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 alimony.
The couple married about ten years ago and have a five-year-old daughter who is staying with her father. The problems started after 3-4 years of marriage. Dashrath filed for divorce in family court and alimony was set in an injunction.
Dashrath’s attorney, Gupta, claimed he was unable to pay because he was in financial difficulties. But the court issued the repatriation order, which was converted into an arrest warrant.
Jaipur Police arrested Dashrath and brought him before the court on June 17. On the same day, his relatives reached the court with the sacks of coins. The court granted him bail on bail of 1 lakh rupees.