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In the viral footage, the 37-year-old man was seen walking off the courtroom with two white bags filled with coins and keeping them inside a car.
The man returned to the court the next day with notes. (Photo Credit: Instagram)
A man from Tamil Nadu hit the headlines after he appeared in court with a bunch of coins to pay alimony to his estranged wife. The bizarre event unfolded at the additional family court in the city of Coimbatore on December 18, as reported by the Times of India. The man is a driver by profession and owns a call taxi. The court asked him to pay Rs 2 lakh as interim maintenance support to his estranged wife who filed a divorce petition last year. The man reportedly has a sister who is currently staying in the US.
In a video going viral, the 37-year-old was seen walking off the courtroom with two white bags filled with coins and keeping them inside a car. He brought 20 bundles of one and two rupee coins to pay a sum of Rs 80,000, the TOI report claimed. The court was undoubtedly baffled by his act.
Once the judge saw him submitting the huge amount in coins, he asked the man to take it back and come again with notes. The driver who is a resident of Vadavalli later replaced the coins with currency notes. As per the TOI, he returned to the court on the next day (December 19) to pay that interim alimony. The court ordered the man to hand over the remaining amount of Rs 1.2 lakh soon.
A similar incident took place in Rajasthan in June last year. A man had to pay Rs 55,000 to his estranged wife as maintenance for eleven months. As he failed to submit the money by the stipulated date, the person named Dasrath was detained. A dramatic event unfolded in the court on the day of the hearing.
Some of his relatives showed up at the family court with seven sacks filled with coins in the denomination of Rs 1 and 2. The lawyer of Seema Kumawat, Dasrath’s wife, refused to count those thousands of coins as according to him, it was nothing short of “mental harassment”.
Considering the situation, the judge concluded that Dasrath would count the money himself in court. He was ordered to make 55 sets of Rs 1,000 and hand over the money to Seema when the next hearing was scheduled.
