Click to play videoJaipur: A 70-year-old woman has been fighting a legal battle against her husband for forty years.
In what sounds like 'too little too late', the Rajasthan High Court has now ordered her husband to give her maintenance of Rs 1000 per month till their divorce petition is decided.
"It's been forty years that I have been running around and dying of hunger. I'm old and there's no one to take care of me, I have suffered all these years; only now, I have been given justice here," says Jeevani Devi, a resident of Tejsar village.
Jeevani Devi says she wasn't aware that she could take the matter to court, so she fought at the Panchayat before she moved the court over ten years ago. But her wait for maintenance seemed like a never-ending one.
She says that the process is so tiresome and taxing that she would have given up long back, but poverty forced her to fight. Jeevani Devi's lawyer says the government has set directions for early dispensing of cases that involve the elderly.
"There are provisions and even circulars through which the High Court and Supreme Court have passed orders to decide the matters invloving senior citizens fast," says Anoop Dhand, Jeevani Devi's lawyer. But all that is clearly not working.
The woman's only daughter who accompanies her to the hearings from their village Tejsar - about 200 kms from Jaipur - says the maintenence may be some relief, but her struggle for justice is not over yet.
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