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Team India cricketer Mohammed Shami’s estranged wife Hasin Jahan has cited his “ultra-luxurious lifestyle” while arguing in the Supreme Court for an increase in the ₹4 lakh-a-month interim maintenance granted to her by the Calcutta High Court. She has accused Shami of “deliberately leaving the wife and the minor daughter to suffer in penury”.
The SC on Friday, November 7, issued a notice to Shami but the bench remarked that ₹4 lakh appeared “quite reasonable”.
“Why have you filed this? Isn’t ₹4 lakh per month quite handsome?” the SC bench of justices Manoj Misra and Ujjal Bhuyan said.
Now an old video of Hasin Jahan, a model who has acted in some Bengali and Hindi films, is being shared widely again on social media from after the HC order in July that granted the ₹4 lakh a month.
“Actually, maintenance is determined based on the husband’s status and earning… (that) the life the husband leads, the wife and children will lead the same,” she told news agency PTI then.
“So, considering his status, earning, and the lifestyle he leads, this ₹4 lakh is less. We had demanded ₹10 lakh, that too seven years and four months ago. So now, according to inflation, we will appeal,” she said. “I appreciate this judgment… but still, I feel that according to (Shami’s) status, we should get more maintenance,” she added.
Shami is also facing trial in a criminal case filed by Jahan, alleging extreme cruelty caused by the cricketer and his family, in West Bengal’s Jadavpur in 2018.
Below: Video of Hasin Jahan after the HC order in July 2025
How amount reached ₹4 lakh, and now SC
- In the case of interim maintenance, originally a trial court in Bengal in 2018 directed Shami to pay ₹80,000 per month towards his daughter’s monthly maintenance and ₹50,000 for Jahan – ₹1.3 lakh thus. Jahan challenged this before the high court.
- In its July 1 order this year, the HC increased this to ₹1.5 lakh for her and ₹2.5 lakh for the daughter — source
