High Court rejects plea against payment of Rs 100 transport allowance to estranged wife

The Gujarat High Court turned down an appeal filed by a senior citizen challenging an order passed by the Ahmedabad family court to provide Rs 2,500 per month as alimony, and Rs100 as transportation allowance at every adjournment to his estranged wife. The case related to 62-year-old Bhanabhai Kevadia, a retired employee of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, who filed a case of divorce on the ground that his wife solemnized marriage without giving divorce to her first husband.
Not only that she had got married four times in the past and arrested under PASA for involvement in the prohibition business. However, the court didn't look into the allegations and upheld the family court order taking into consideration his income. Kevadia's wife, with whom he had three children, died in 2002. In 2011, he married Shashikala after she told him that her first husband had died in 2008. Soon after their marriage, Kevadia discovered that her wife's first husband was alive and that she had several cases of prohibition lodged against her.
Kevadia also found out that a case of Immoral Trafficking Act was also registered against her and her daughter born from the first marriage. With their marriage on the rocks, Shashikala tried to usurp properties owned by Kevadia, who then filed a petition in the family court for dissolution of marriage. Countering the plea, Shashikala filed cases against Kevadia under Domestic Violence Act and cheating and sought alimony of Rs 40,000 per month. After hearing the petition, on May 20, 2015 the court decided an interim maintenance of Rs 2,500 and Rs 100 toward transportation. Kevadia challenged the decision before the high court but looking at his income from rent, land and other properties, the HC upheld the order of the family court.