India, Feb. 7 -- Maharashtra's food and civil supplies minister Dhananjay Munde, who has been under fire over the arrest of his aide Walmik Karad in connection with the murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in December 2024, has found himself in yet another controversy.

On Tuesday, a metropolitan magistrate court in Bandra ordered the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader to pay an interim monthly maintenance of Rs.2 lakh to his estranged first wife, Karuna Sharma, and their daughter, Shivani.

Sharma had approached the court in 2022 and invoked provisions of the Protection of Woman from Domestic Violence (DV) Act, 2005, claiming she had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse during their marriage. She sought a monthly maint...