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 charade of paying off his 55,000 rupee debt to his wife Seema using the coins – Re 1 and rupee 2 – packed in seven sacks and his lawyer’s insistence that they be accepted as “legal tender”. would have to. 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,” he 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 repatriation order against Dashrath after Seema accused him of evading child support.
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