Overview
- The order directs the Pune businessman to pay ₹3.5 lakh per month and to deposit ₹42 lakh—one year of payments—within four weeks starting November 1.
- Justices B P Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sundaresan found the man had misled the judiciary, rejecting his assertion of earning only ₹6 lakh annually.
- The court pointed to photographs of a luxury birthday party, foreign travel, high‑end brand purchases, and a magazine‑featured home as contradicting claims of penury.
- The judgment records a conservative valuation of the family real‑estate and finance businesses at about ₹1,083 crore and notes the husband’s land‑bank share exceeds ₹100 crore, with evidence of transfers above ₹10 crore to his brother.
- Emphasizing the daughter’s educational needs and the standard of living during marriage, the bench said ₹50,000 was inadequate and rebuked arguments disparaging the mother’s work and the child’s extracurricular expenses.