India, Feb. 7 -- Two days after a metropolitan magistrate court ordered Maharashtra's food and civil supplies minister Dhananjay Munde to pay an interim monthly maintenance of Rs.2 lakh to his estranged first wife, Karuna Sharma, and their daughter, Shivani, his son, Seeshiv Munde, came out in support of his father and, in turn, accused his mother of physically abusing his father. In a social media post, Seeshiv also accused his mother of domestic violence against him and his sister.

"...I feel it's important for me to speak up as the media is turning my family into entertainment," Seeshiv wrote in his post. "My father hasn't been the best, but he was never harmful to us, unlike my mother. She had traumas, and the worst way to deal with ...