Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 12: Payal, the estranged wife of former Chief Minister and National Conference working president, Omar Abdullah has charged her husband with not taking the care of her family including her and two children saying she was not being given any money to run the house and bear expenditure of studies of the children.
“I’m legally wedded wife of Omar Abdullah. As you know, there has been no divorce between us. I have to look after my two children. Omar is not giving us any money,” she told a national Hindi news channel in an interview.
Payal said: “Omar should fulfill his responsibility towards me and his children. He should give money to us to run our house…. studies of the children and other expenses, which he is not giving”. She added that it were her parents, who were supporting her financially, otherwise, she would have been facing very hard days.
Asserting that Omar should give due right to her and her children, Payal, who has been living separately from Omar in New Delhi for past some years now, claimed that she was ousted from the house (by Omar) in two hours and wanted that the former Chief Minister should give due right to them and money.
Referring to ‘Beti Bachao’ slogan of the Government, Payal said on the one hand the Government has been talking of `Beti Bachao’ while on the other she has been wandering here and there for justice.
“Sometime, I have to live in house, club or with my parent,” she said, adding Omar should fulfill his responsibility as his father and give money to her children and wife. She pointed out that recently she paid Rs 4.5 lakh college fee for her elder son and asked: “from where this money would come”?
“Omar has virtually written us (all three) off,” she said, adding she had to knock the doors of court to claim Rs 15 lakh per month from Omar to meet the family expenses.
Payal had recently moved a city court seeking maintenance of Rs 15 lakh from him, claiming that she and her children have been rendered “homeless” and “penniless” after their eviction from the Government accommodation at Lutyens’ Delhi.
Payal’s petition comes barely a month after a Delhi High Court order, through which she and her sons were evicted from the J&K Government’s (type VIII) bungalow on Akbar Road.
Insisting that Omar be directed to provide her Rs 10 lakh monthly maintenance for herself and her two sons and Rs 5 lakh for a new accommodation, Payal said she and her children are Z and Z+ category security protectees but the eviction has made them vulnerable to security threats.
The plea stated that Payal and the children are living a “life of nomads”, “shuttling between the house of friends” and are “at the mercy of Payal’s aged parents”.
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