New Delhi, July 12 -- The Delhi high court has held that while the husband need not beg, borrow or steal to maintain his wife and child, he cannot escape his responsibility while leading a lavish life. A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Renu Bhatnagar delivered its ruling on July 9 while dealing with a plea filed by a man against a family court's November 2024 order directing him to pay Rs.1 lakh to his wife and Rs.2.25 lakh to his minor child as monthly maintenance. The family court while computing the maintenance had taken note of the man's affluent background and the fact that they were residing together in a posh area in Defence Colony. In his petition, the man had asserted that the maintenance was arbitrary and exorbitant since it was calculated on the basis of his credit entries from the bank account while ignoring the debt entries. He further submitted that the Defence Colony property belonged to his parents....