Summary:
Nagpur: In a rare development, the Nagpur Family Court sent a man behind bars for failing to pay maintenance to his wife and two minor kids. "The respondent has failed to clear the arrears of the maintenance though he has a source of income. "If the provision or arrangement of the maintenance is not made, then the person may face starvation and vagrancy," he observed. "He was not ready to perform his responsibility as a father of his minor children and as a husband of helpless wife. The city-based man failed to pay regular monthly amount of Rs1,200 for over three years, which accumulated to Rs1.36 lakh.He was arrested on June 20 and was sentenced to 12 months of imprisonment for defaulting on payments..