JAIPUR: A Jaipur seller who wanted to escalate matters with his estranged wife by handing over 280kg to her in loose change as maintenance arrears were eventually paid back in his own coin.
A family court saw through Dashrath Kumawat's charade 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 accepted as “legal tender”. would have to. 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,” he said angrily.
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 repatriation order against Dashrath because Seema had accused him of evading maintenance payments.
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