AHMEDABAD: A man brought a sack of Rs. 10,000 -- all of it in coins -- to the family court here on Wednesday, to pay his estranged wife the alimony he owed her. This was his way of protesting the court-mandated sum he has to pay her each month.

Pruthvi Prajapati brought the sack of coins to the court, placed the bag in front of his estranged wife Ramilaben and asked her to count the money. Nonplussed, she refused to count the coins, grabbed the bag and walked away.

"I don't know why he brought so many coins to court but he said that it was what he had," his lawyer Pragna Vyas said.

Prajapati actually only owes his ex-wife Rs 1500 a month, and he doesn't have to go court to pay it. However, having defaulted since 2014, he had to pay his wife the arrears in the presence of the judge.

Vyas said that the husband and wife started living separately in 2011, when the wife filed an application with the family court for maintenance. She claimed that the husband owned a showroom, while her spouse claimed to be merely an employee in that showroom. The court ordered Prajapati to pay his estranged wife Rs 1,500 as maintenance every month.

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