Difficult for wife to change lifestyle in hard times: Bombay high court

May 12, 2012
DiscrmMumbai, May 12: If a wife is accustomed to a particular lifestyle, it is difficult for her to adjust in bad times, the Bombay high court said on Friday while hearing a plea for enhancement of maintenance.

A division bench of Justice P B Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta was hearing a petition filed by film producer Gaurang Doshi's wife Madhuri challenging the family court's June 16, 2010, order on providing a monthly maintenance of Rs 50,000 each to her and their daughter. She had sought Rs 2 lakh for herself and Rs 75,000 for the daughter, besides accommodation and a car.

Arguing that her maintenance be enhanced, Madhuri's petition pointed out that till May 2004, Doshi gave her Rs 3 lakh only for household expenses. There was a domestic dispute after that and the two had been living separately since then.

Madhuri's advocate Satish Maneshinde said Doshi often delayed payment of maintenance despite giving an undertaking to court.

Doshi, who made films such as Aankhen and Deewaar, earlier told the court that he was making another movie and waiting for the financiers to come from abroad. He also said he had huge financial liabilities.

The judges asked Doshi to give, without prejudice, an extra Rs 20,000 for his daughter to spend during the summer holiday. "You were taking them on a chartered plane, your daughter is accustomed to a good life. As a gesture of a good man, give her," said Justice Majmudar.

"As a good father, some enhancement will not hurt him," said Maneshinde, adding that Doshi led a lavish lifestyle and spent as much in a single day. He further said that for each film, Doshi earned a profit of crores. However, Doshi said, "My last film flopped badly in 2004." When the judges asked him what he was doing for eight years, he said he was embroiled in litigation. "There are good times and bad times. She must adjust. I don't deny I gave them a good life,'' said Doshi.

Justice Majmudar then said: "You are responsible. You made her accustomed to such a lifestlyle. Taking her on a chartered plane, etc. Once a wife is accustomed to a particular lifestyle, she will find it difficult to adjust in bad times."

Doshi agreed to pay the amount after two weeks, saying he had to arrange for it. "We wish you good times,'' said Justice Majmudar.

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March 24,2020

New Delhi, Mar 24: Thirty-two states and Union Territories (UTs) have announced complete lockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus in the country, informed the Central government on Tuesday.
There is a complete lockdown in as many as 560 districts of the country affecting several hundred million people.
Earlier, the complete lockdown was imposed in 30 districts, as of now, almost the entire country is in lockdown to restrict public movement in an attempt to break the chain of transmission of coronavirus.
Three states -- Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha -- have announced lockdown in select districts with the governments continuously monitoring the situation and ready to extend the restrictions to other districts as well.
The Union Territory of Lakshadweep has announced restrictions on certain activities.
The Indian Railways has suspended all passenger train operations till March 31 in view of coronavirus.

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April 4,2020

Mumbai, Apr 4: As many as six Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel stationed at Mumbai airport in Maharashtra have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of positive cases among the central force to 11. The first case of a CISF jawan being diagnosed with the viral disease was reported on March 28. 

After the first case, the armed police force reported four more cases of COVID-19 among the personnel stationed at the airport on Thursday. On the same day, the CISF collected samples of 146 staff and sent them to Kasturba hospital for testing. The results, which arrived on Friday, recorded six more COVID-19 cases among, reported news agency.

The personnel were posted at Kharghar adjoining Mumbai, a senior official told news agency.

As of now, there are 14 COVID-19 cases in Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) area in Mumbai. Kharghar comes under the civic body's jurisdiction.

All the 146 CISF personnel were shifted to a quarantine centre at a facility at Kamothe reported the Times of India.

Maharashtra reported 67 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally to 490. A total of 26 deaths have been reported in the state.  

In the meantime, the Centre on Friday said there is no shortage of medical supplies across the country to fight COVID-19 outbreak.

"The government of India is making sure that all the essential medical supplies are in place to fight COVID-19. Sixty-two lifeline Udan flights transported over 15.4 tons of essential medical supplies in the last five days," Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilisers DV Sadanada Gowda said in a tweet.

The government is also paying full attention to the manufacturing activities of essential items like pharmaceuticals and hospital devices. For this, over 200 units in Special Economic Zones (SEZs)  are operational, he added.

"A Central Control Room has also been set up for close monitoring of the distribution of essential medical items and to address logistic related issues," Gowda said.

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April 20,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 20: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday alleged that efforts were being made to undermine the achievements of the state government in its fight against Covid-19 and said he was "ignoring" them as it was not the time for controversies.

The Opposition Congress has been raising allegations that a US-based company had been entrusted with the task of collecting data regarding the virus-infected patients in the state, in violation of fundamental rights.

"Many developed nations are in awe of the achievements of Kerala in its fight against Covid-19 pandemic. This is the speciality of Kerala model," Vijayan said. Referring to the data collection charge levelled by the opposition parties, Vijayan said some were engaged in slandering the state government.

"Those who think that the government should not have a reputation for effectively handling the coronavirus outbreak are engaged in slandering the state government. It has happened before, it's happening now also. This is not the time to go behind controversies. People are watching and they will evaluate," Vijayan said in his weekly interactive programme 'Naam munnott'.

He said he had decided to ignore such controversies. The ward-level committees, set up by the government for the anti-coronavirus fight, was collecting information of those under home isolation, elderly persons and those at the risk of the disease using a questionnaire in this regard and upload it on the server of the private agency. The Congress has alleged that the data, collected through the government machinery, was being uploaded not on the government server but on that of the foreign company.

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