A family court in Mumbai has ordered NCP leader and state Minister Dhananjay Munde to pay interim maintenance of R2 lakh per month to his estranged wife Karuna and their daughter. Munde's first wife, who has two children with him, had filed a domestic violence case against him in 2020. She subsequently sought interim maintenance and compensation under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.

The court has not given its ruling in the domestic violence case, clarified lawyer Sayali Sawant, who is representing the Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection. The Bandra Family Court partly allowed the first wife's plea on Tuesday and directed Munde to pay Rs 1,25,000 per month to her and Rs 75,000 per month to their daughter as interim maintenance.