While hearing a divorce case Judge R K Sharma, a Judge in the Additional district court witness an unexpected surprise on Tuesday, when an advocate in Punjab and Haryana High Court dragged a bag filled with Rs 1 and Rs 2 coins in the Court and placed it in front of everyone.
The Court was hearing a divorce plea of a couple, who decided to part ways after three months of marriage. The advocate had come to the court for giving the alimony of Rs 25,000 to his wife. The case is under trial since 2015. When urged to convert the coins into currency notes, the advocate informed the court that he was unable to do so, stating that he is paying the alimony money to his wife every month, yet today he was unable to get currency note and have managed to get the coins from a temple where he offers prayers.
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To counter that, his wife alleged that he was disrespecting the court by bringing coins instead of notes, she also added that this is his husband’s new tactic to harass her.
Since counting the coins will consume courts valuable time, the case was adjourned till July 27. When questioned, the advocate said, “I had been paying alimony to my wife previously also. But today (Tuesday), since I did not have currency notes, I brought the money in whichever form I could. I borrowed the coins from a religious institution where I performed seva.”
“She is to be paid Rs 25,000 and I brought it in whichever form I could.”
Later the advocate with his junior’s dragged the bag pilled was coins into the court staff room and started counting the coins. The advocate had added a note in the bag as the count of the coins was 24,600; he added four 100 rupee notes in the bag. He would bring the same bag on the next hearing as the court was adjourned for the day, said the onlookers.
The woman said she was living in Australia and came back to India in 2014. “I got married on February 8 that year. Our marriage could not last more than three months and in May, my husband filed a case for judicial separation. He withdrew the application for separation on February 8, 2015. Then in October 2015, he filed a divorce case and I moved an application seeking maintenance from my husband. It was in February 2018 when the High Court directed my husband to pay me a monthly maintenance. It was this money, which he brought in the court in form of coins, just to make a mockery of the court,” said the woman told.