Workforce India cricketer Mohammed Shami’s estranged spouse Hasin Jahan has cited his “ultra-luxurious way of life” whereas arguing within the Supreme Court docket for a rise within the ₹4 lakh-a-month interim upkeep granted to her by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket. She has accused Shami of “intentionally leaving the spouse and the minor daughter to endure in penury”.
The SC on Friday, November 7, issued a discover to Shami however the bench remarked that ₹4 lakh appeared “fairly affordable”.
“Why have you ever filed this? Isn’t ₹4 lakh monthly fairly good-looking?” the SC bench of justices Manoj Misra and Ujjal Bhuyan mentioned.
Now an previous video of Hasin Jahan, a mannequin who has acted in some Bengali and Hindi movies, is being shared broadly once more on social media from after the HC order in July that granted the ₹4 lakh a month.
“Really, upkeep is decided primarily based on the husband’s standing and incomes… (that) the life the husband leads, the spouse and youngsters will lead the identical,” she informed information company PTI then.
“So, contemplating his standing, incomes, and the approach to life he leads, this ₹4 lakh is much less. We had demanded ₹10 lakh, that too seven years and 4 months in the past. So now, in response to inflation, we are going to enchantment,” she mentioned. “I respect this judgment… however nonetheless, I really feel that in response to (Shami’s) standing, we should always get extra upkeep,” she added.
Shami can also be dealing with trial in a legal case filed by Jahan, alleging excessive cruelty attributable to the cricketer and his household, in West Bengal’s Jadavpur in 2018.
Under: Video of Hasin Jahan after the HC order in July 2025
How quantity reached ₹4 lakh, and now SC
- Within the case of interim upkeep, initially a trial court docket in Bengal in 2018 directed Shami to pay ₹80,000 monthly in direction of his daughter’s month-to-month upkeep and ₹50,000 for Jahan – ₹1.3 lakh thus. Jahan challenged this earlier than the excessive court docket.
- In its July 1 order this 12 months, the HC elevated this to ₹1.5 lakh for her and ₹2.5 lakh for the daughter — ₹4 lakh.”> ₹4 lakh. A division bench of the excessive court docket upheld this on August 25.
- Each HC orders have been challenged within the present enchantment by her within the SC.
- On November 7, the SC issued discover to Shami and posted the matter after 4 weeks. “If you wish to mediate and settle, we will subject discover,” the bench remarked.
For Hasin Jahan, senior advocate Shobha Gupta and advocate Sriram Parakatt argued on the strains that Jahan talked about in July.
Shami’s internet price, bills cited by Hasin Jahan
“(Shami) resides a lavish life and is intentionally manipulating the courts for the only objective of not offering equitable quantity of upkeep to the petitioner and minor daughter,” Jahan argued via her attorneys.
She claimed that Shami’s month-to-month expense is over ₹1.08 crore as per an affidavit filed by him within the excessive court docket.
His internet price is estimated to be about ₹500 crore, her petition within the SC mentioned, including that the spouse is unemployed since her marriage and has no unbiased supply of revenue to satisfy her every day wants and that of her youngster.
Jahan additionally claims Shami can also be liable to pay ₹2.4 crore as arrears of upkeep, a determine that the cricketer has disputed. The excessive court docket had directed him to clear the pending arrears in eight month-to-month installments starting from September.
