The Bombay High Court has upheld orders passed by a local court in Nanded in Maharashtra directing a woman teacher to pay alimony to her "indigent" former husband. In an order passed on February 26 this year, Justice Bharati Dangre of the Aurangabad bench of the high court upheld the orders passed by the local court in 2017 and 2019.

The civil court had directed that the woman pay an interim monthly maintenance of Rs 3,000 to her ex-husband, and asked the headmaster of her school to deduct Rs 5,000 from her salary every month and deposit the same with the court towards unpaid maintenance since August 2017. The woman contested the lower court orders arguing that she had divorced her husband in 2015.