Industrialist Jaidev Shroff granted divorce after 11-year legal battle, to pay Rs 10 crore alimony; wife’s plea for enhanced maintenance dismissed

MUMBAI: The family court in Bandra has allowed a divorce petition filed by industrialist Jaidev Shroff against his wife Poonam Bhagat Shroff, granting him divorce after an 11-year-old battle. It directed him to pay a lump sum alimony of Rs 10 crore as full and final settlement.

Rejecting Poonam's plea for a Rs 1,000 crore alimony, the court directed that the Rs 10 crore be paid to her within 3 months. It said the marriage, solemnised in 2004 and later in Jan 2005 under Hindu Vedic rites, stood "dissolved by a decree of divorce on the grounds of cruelty" as contemplated under provisions of the Special Marriage Act.


It rejected her claim for lifelong residential rights in the Bandra matrimonial home and usage rights to any of the properties abroad.

The Mumbai family court at Bandra, last week, allowed a divorce petition filed by industrialist Jaidev Shroff against his wife Poonam Shroff, in an 11-year-old battle.

The court, directed him to pay her a lump sum permanent alimony of Rs 10 crore as a full and final settlement. Further, Poonam’s plea for enhanced/additional maintenance was also dismissed.

Supreme Court had last month rejected Poonam’s plea against a Bombay high court order upholding the family court’s decision not to club her maintenance plea with the divorce proceedings.

SC had in August 2025 directed the family court to expedite the hearing and granted a final 3-month extension to decide the pending divorce petition. The family court requested the HC registry for a 9-month extension to decide the dispute.

The divorce petition was filed in 2015 before the family court in Mumbai, and on several occasions, the matter reached SC.

On December 3, 2021, SC first directed the family court to expedite the divorce hearing. In 2023, Poonam filed for maintenance, and in March 2024, SC again directed the family court to decide the divorce plea in 6 months.