Bhopal, May 28 (PTI): A woman is entitled to know what remuneration her husband is getting, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed.

A High Court Bench of Justices S.K. Seth and Nandita Dubey made the observation while hearing the petition of Sunita Jain who had sought a higher maintenance amount from her estranged husband, claiming that he was a senior officer with the State-run BSNL.

Counsel for the petitioner K.C. Ghildiyal said Sunita Jain had pleaded that her estranged husband Pawan Kumar Jain was drawing a high salary while she was being given a monthly maintenance of just Rs 7,000 per month. After a trial court rejected Sunita’s plea that her husband produce his pay slip, she had filed a Right to Information application to get his salary details.

The issue reached the Central Information Commission, which, in an order dated July 27, 2007, asked the BSNL Central Public Information Officer to furnish the required details, Ghildiyal said.

The husband, however, challenged the CIC order before a Single Bench of the M.P. High Court which set aside the CIC order in March 2015.

Ghildiyal said that Sunita Jain then moved the Double Bench of the High Court which observed that a wife was entitled to know the remuneration of her husband.