Domestic violence case: Bombay HC upholds ₹3 crore compensation, ₹1.5 lakh maintenance to woman

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₹3 crore and monthly maintenance of ₹1.5 lakh to his estranged wife. Justice Sharmila Deshmukh passed the order saying that the amount is granted to the woman as a recompense not only for physical injuries but also for mental torture and emotional distress. She said that for every case the quantum of compensation will differ depending on the facts of each case.

Mint Money | Should married couples merge finances or keep them separate? Justice Sharmila held that the trial court’s finding was based on the discussion that there were continuous acts of domestic violence from 1994 to 2017, which cannot be faulted. As per the PTI agency report, the couple tied the knot in Mumbai in January 1994 and later moved to the USA, where, too, they performed a marriage ceremony. In 2005, they moved to Mumbai and started living together.

However, after three years, the wife moved to her mother’s house, while the husband went back to the US in 2014. The wife, in 2017, filed a case against her husband under provisions of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) before the magistrate's court. The woman alleged that during their honeymoon, the husband called her “second hand" over her previous broken engagement.

Mutual divorce: How alimony is taxed? The woman alleged that in the USA she faced continuous acts of domestic violence, such as suspicion of her character, making false allegations of illicit relationships with other men, and beating her up till she confessed for the same. The trial court noted the evidence of the domestic violence corroborated by her mother, brother, and uncle. In January last year, the trial court held that the woman was subjected to domestic violence at the hands of her husband and directed him to pay ₹3 crore as