Hyderabad, June 7 -- A sessions court in Mumbai ordered a man to pay his wife domestic violence compensation amounting to Rs 1 crore, enhancing it from the previous amount of Rs 5 lakh, noting that the husband was in the financial position to do so.

In the case, the wife appealed against a Magistrate court's order which allotted her a compensation of Rs 5 lakh and a monthly maintenance of Rs 1 lakh after the wife was subject to abuse and humiliation in a 20-year-long marriage, Live Law reported.

Noting that the husband and his family are extremely rich, reflected by their spending on properties and the elevator business they currently run, Additional sessions Judge Sameer Ansari said, "It is clear that the husband has not been able to p...