Overview

• A Right to Information request revealed the husband earned ₹27 lakh annually as an IT professional in Mumbai, contradicting his affidavit of unemployment.
• A division bench of Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Rajesh Kumar split the ₹90,000 monthly award into ₹50,000 for the ex-wife and ₹40,000 for their autistic son.
• The High Court criticized the Ranchi family court for accepting the false unemployment claim without verifying the husband’s financial disclosures.
• The judgment acknowledged the son’s autism and 75% intellectual disability, noting specialized care and therapy expenses estimated at around ₹53,000 per month.
• Advocate Rakesh Kumar Gupta described the decision as a milestone for using transparency tools to enforce maintenance obligations for single mothers of disabled children.