Man hands over 280 kg of coins to court for Rs 55,000 maintenance | News from India

JAIPUR: A Jaipur-based trader tried to settle his relationship with his estranged wife by giving her 280 kg of change as outstanding maintenance payments, which he would eventually have to repay on his own behalf.
A family court saw through Dashrath Kumawat's farce of paying off his Rs 55,000 debt to his wife Seema with the coins packed in seven bags – denominated in Rs 1 and Rs 2 – and his lawyer's insistence that they be accepted as “legal tender”. The court on June 17 ordered Dashrath to count the coins and make 55 packets of Rs 1,000 each – all this to be done at the next hearing on June 26. He could seek help if he found the task “too difficult”.
Seema's lawyer Ramprakash Kumawat was not amused. “First the husband did not pay maintenance for 11 months. Now he has brought coins worth Rs 55,000 to harass his wife. Just counting them will take 10 days,” he fumed.
Dashrath's lawyer Raman Gupta tried to dispel the impression of victimisation by claiming that his client was a street vendor who was often paid in coins. Few believed this argument. It all started when the court issued a writ of execution against Dashrath after Seema accused him of evading maintenance payments.