Indore, April 8 An Indore family court has granted a divorce decree to the wife of Narayan Sai, the convicted rapist and jailed son of self-proclaimed godman Asaram, and has ordered him to pay her a permanent maintenance of ₹2 crore within three months, according to the woman's lawyer.
Narayan Sai is currently in prison in the Surat district of Gujarat, after being sentenced to life imprisonment in a rape case.
The court's order of April 2 dissolves his 18-year-old marriage to Anuragchandra Goyal, the lawyer representing Narayan Sai's wife, Janaki Harpalani, based in Indore, told reporters on Tuesday.
Goyal said his client had filed a divorce petition in the local family court in 2018, alleging mental cruelty and other charges against her husband, and seeking a lump sum maintenance of ₹5 crore.
According to Goyal, although Narayan Sai denied these allegations in court, his client presented "solid documentary evidence" in the divorce petition filed against her husband.
"After hearing arguments from both sides, a family court judge approved the petition on April 2 and ordered that Narayan Sai pay a permanent maintenance amount of ₹2 crore to Janaki within three months," the lawyer said.
Goyal said the couple got married in 2008 and have no children.
At the previous hearing in the divorce case on March 24, Narayan Sai was produced before the family court under tight security to record his statement.
In 2018, the family court had ordered Narayan Sai to pay a monthly maintenance of ₹50,000 to his wife.
Janaki's lawyer Goyal said, "In the last eight years, no maintenance amount has been paid to my client by Narayan Sai."