The Calcutta High Court has asked a husband to provide up to 60 percent of the pension to his divorced wife. The High Court has asked to pay about 25 thousand rupees alimony, which according to ITR, is 60% of the pension. He will continue to grow 5 percent every 2 years.
The husband said that the alimony was so fixed then. When his salary used to be 1 lakh 30 thousand rupees of the month. When he used to work in UCO Bank. However, he has resigned from his job due to work pressure. Now his pension is only 42 thousand rupees, out of which the court has asked to give 25 thousand rupees to his wife every month.
Court had earlier reduced allowance
When the case reached the magistrate court in 2023, the magistrate court said that the wife admitted in her cross -examination that her husband has now retired and she was living in her husband’s house. He admitted that he had received money from Lakshmi Bhandar and also has a Sastha Saathi card in his name. The magistrate court cited several legal examples and the evidence given by the wife further cross-examined and finally reduced the maintenance amount given in the original matrimonial case. The magistrate court said on December 30, 2023 that giving 30 thousand per month to the husband should be reduced to 20 thousand rupees.
Increased amount on wife’s complaint
However, in 2024, the wife appealed to the Kolkata High Court, as she felt that the husband reduced the maintenance amount. Wife’s lawyers said that the husband earns from many sources like stock market, provident fund, gratuity, and holiday money, but he showed less money. Also, the High Court judge did not pay attention to the husband’s retirement benefits, which he got as a senior bank officer. The husband’s lawyers argued that he gets only Rs 42,000 pension every month and he cannot give the money demanded for his wife. But after listening to this argument, the Calcutta High Court in the last said that the wife will have to pay a living allowance of 25 thousand rupees per month to the husband to live a glorious life.