‘Ultra-luxurious lifestyle’, ‘inflation’: Why cricket star Shami’s spouse argues ₹4 lakh month-to-month upkeep is much less

Team India cricketer Mohammed Shami’s estranged spouse Hasin Jahan has cited his “ultra-luxurious lifestyle” whereas arguing within the Supreme Court for a rise within the ₹4 lakh-a-month interim upkeep 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 discover to Shami however 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 mentioned.

Now an outdated video of Hasin Jahan, a mannequin who has acted in some Bengali and Hindi movies, is being shared broadly once more on social media from after the HC order in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 instructed information company 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 mentioned. “I appreciate this judgment… but still, I feel that according to (Shami’s) status, we should get more maintenance,” she added.

Shami can be going through trial in a felony case filed by Jahan, alleging excessive cruelty attributable to the cricketer and his household, in West Bengal’s Jadavpur in 2018.

Below: Video of Hasin Jahan after the HC order in July 2025

How quantity reached ₹4 lakh, and now SC

• In the case of interim upkeep, initially a trial courtroom in Bengal in 2018 directed Shami to pay ₹80,000 monthly in direction of his daughter’s month-to-month upkeep and ₹50,000 for Jahan – ₹1.3 lakh thus. Jahan challenged this earlier than the excessive courtroom.
• In its July 1 order this yr, the HC elevated this to ₹1.5 lakh for her and ₹2.5 lakh for the daughter — ₹4 lakh.”> ₹4 lakh. A division bench of the high court upheld this on August 25.
• Both HC orders have been challenged in the current appeal by her in the SC.
• On November 7, the SC issued notice to Shami and posted the matter after four weeks. “If you want to mediate and settle, we can issue notice,” the bench remarked.

For Hasin Jahan, senior advocate Shobha Gupta and advocate Sriram Parakatt argued on the lines that Jahan mentioned in July.

Shami’s net worth, expenses cited by Hasin Jahan

“(Shami) is living a lavish life and is deliberately manipulating the courts for the sole purpose of not providing equitable amount of maintenance to the petitioner and minor daughter,” Jahan argued through her lawyers.

She claimed that Shami’s monthly expense is over ₹1.08 crore as per an affidavit filed by him in the high court.

His net worth is estimated to be about ₹500 crore, her petition in the SC said, adding that the wife is unemployed since her marriage and has no independent source of income to meet her daily needs and that of her child.

Jahan also claims Shami is also liable to pay ₹2.4 crore as arrears of upkeep, a determine that the cricketer has disputed. The excessive courtroom had directed him to clear the pending arrears in eight month-to-month installments starting from September.