Mohd Shami ordered to pay revised alimony to Hasin Jahan

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami to pay Rs 1.5 lakh per month interim maintenance to his estranged wife Hasin Jahan and a sum of Rs 2.5 lakh towards the care and expenses of their minor daughter.

A Bench of Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was hearing an appeal filed by Hasin Jahan challenging a decision of the Alipore Sessions Judge who had directed Mohammed Shami to pay Rs 50 thousand per month to Hasin Jahan and Rs 80 thousand to their daughter towards interim monetary relief.

The appeal filed by Hasin Jahan contended that Alipore’s Sessions judge



“mechanically” granted “inadequate and insufficient” interim relief when she has a meagre monthly income of Rs 16 thousand, but her monthly expenditure goes around Rs 6 lakh.

It added that due to her financial Inabilities, she was not able to admit her daughter to a reputed school similar to the school where the children of other Indian cricketers study.

Hasin Jahan’s counsel urged the Calcutta High Court to consider the grant of interim monetary relief in view of Mohammed Shami’s financial capacity, his actual income, standard of living and the spiralling inflation rates.