New Delhi: Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami was ordered to pay Rs 4 lakh as maintenance to his wife and daughter during the ongoing legal battle by the Calcutta High Court. The maintenance amount saw a significant jump from the previously agreed figure of Rs 1.30 lakh, which was decided on the basis of a district sessions court order in 2023. As soon as the news became public, Shami’s fans sympathised with him on social media, saying the cricketer shouldn’t have been forced to pay such a high amount as maintenance.
However, the order explained that the figure was decided keeping in mind Shami’s earnings, his daughter’s future and the lifestyle his estranged wife, Hasin Jahan, was enjoying before the two parted their ways. While it is true that the question of awarding an excessive amount of monetary relief does not arise, awarding a very low amount also cannot be accepted.
Hasin Jahan also thanked the court for finalising Rs 4 lakh as maintenance amount, saying the figure would help her get their daughter admitted to a better school, which wasn’t possible earlier.
The original prayer was for monetary relief, including an interim monetary relief of Rs 7 lakh per month for herself and an additional Rs 3 lakh for her daughter. Hasin Jahan has lodged an FIR at the Jadavpur police station against Shami and his family in March 2018, four years after their marriage in April 2024, alleging enormous physical and mental torture under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and sustained indifference and neglect of her minor daughter.
Besides domestic violence, she also accused Shami of dowry harassment and match fixing while alleging that Shami has stopped shouldering financial responsibility for running her family expenses.
