He Didn't Pay His Wife Alimony For 2 Years, Fed Up Court Sent Him To Jail But Pays After Spending 5 Days Behind Bars
A man from Uttar Pradesh was first directed in January 2017 to pay his wife Rs 475 lakh of outstanding alimony. But he didn&rsquot pay which forced his wife to move to court in contempt of court plea. The man who runs a Pizza franchise kept ditching the court and his wife. The bench headed by Justice SA Bobde finally lost his patience and issued an arrest warrant against the man and asked the police to keep him in lockup.
What the orders from the courts couldn¡¯t do, the order to send the person in question to jail from Apex court did in a matter of days. A man who despite several orders from the court hadn¡¯t given the alimony to his estranged wife since January 2017, was quick to sign cheques after the Supreme Court sent him to jail for not abiding by court¡¯s orders.
A Man from Uttar Pradesh was first directed in January 2017 to pay his wife Rs 4.75 lakh of outstanding alimony, but he didn¡¯t pay which forced his wife to move to court in contempt of court plea in September 2017 and the man was issued a show-cause notice.
The court kept giving dates after dates with deadlines to clear the outstanding alimony amount, but the man who runs a Pizza franchise kept ditching the court and his wife.
The first instalment came in October 2018 after the court ordered his personal presence on the hearing date and told his lawyers that if he fails to be present in the court, he will face consequences.
Post that Rs 1 lakh was handed over to the woman. He was ordered to remain present in all subsequent hearing and deposit the remained of the money. But he paid only Rs 35,000 in the next three months over five hearing and then stopped appearing the court.
The bench headed by Justice SA Bobde finally lost his patience and issued an arrest warrant against the man and asked the police to keep him in lockup.
"The respondent has been produced in Court by the jurisdictional police. He has still not paid the remaining amount. He does not even offer to make payment of the outstanding amount. He is guilty of a violation of order of this Court time and again. In view of the above, let him be taken into police custody forthwith and be kept in the concerned police station at New Delhi till the next date of hearing," the orders of the court said when he was produced in the court by police. News18 quoted the orders in its report.
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The bench gave the next date after a month, but the man who was in jail was now prompt enough to arrange the money. Just five days later, his lawyer appeared before the bench and told that money was ready.
The man paid Rs 2 lakhs to earn his freedom as bench ordered his release from the police custody.
