<p>Mumbai: A sessions court here on Saturday dismissed NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde's appeal against the interim order of a magistrate directing him to pay maintenance to a woman who claims to be his first wife.</p>.<p>The plea was dismissed by additional sessions judge Shaikh Akbar Shaikh Jafar. The detailed order was not available yet.</p>.<p>The Nationalist Congress Party leader had claimed in his appeal that he was never married to Karuna Munde, the applicant.</p>.<p>The magistrate did not apply his mind and passed an arbitrary order, he had argued.</p>.Dhananjay Munde skips Ajit Pawar's Beed tour over 'health concerns', attends fashion show instead.<p>The Bandra magistrate court on February 4 had partly allowed Karuna Munde's plea and directed Dhananjay Munde to pay Rs 1,25,000 per month to her and Rs 75,000 per month to their daughter as interim maintenance.</p>.<p>The woman filed a domestic violence case against the NCP leader in 2020 and asked for interim maintenance. The magistrate is yet to decide the main plea.</p>.<p>Dhananjay Munde had to resign last month after facing the heat over the arrest of his close aide Walmik Karad in the murder case of a sarpanch in Beed district.</p>
<p>Mumbai: A sessions court here on Saturday dismissed NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde's appeal against the interim order of a magistrate directing him to pay maintenance to a woman who claims to be his first wife.</p>.<p>The plea was dismissed by additional sessions judge Shaikh Akbar Shaikh Jafar. The detailed order was not available yet.</p>.<p>The Nationalist Congress Party leader had claimed in his appeal that he was never married to Karuna Munde, the applicant.</p>.<p>The magistrate did not apply his mind and passed an arbitrary order, he had argued.</p>.Dhananjay Munde skips Ajit Pawar's Beed tour over 'health concerns', attends fashion show instead.<p>The Bandra magistrate court on February 4 had partly allowed Karuna Munde's plea and directed Dhananjay Munde to pay Rs 1,25,000 per month to her and Rs 75,000 per month to their daughter as interim maintenance.</p>.<p>The woman filed a domestic violence case against the NCP leader in 2020 and asked for interim maintenance. The magistrate is yet to decide the main plea.</p>.<p>Dhananjay Munde had to resign last month after facing the heat over the arrest of his close aide Walmik Karad in the murder case of a sarpanch in Beed district.</p>