Alimony for divorce

women has a power to demand what they want even she can demand 20 lakhs and will get that amount from your pocket for her extra expenses 

try to convince and settle a lesser amount with her and take divource but do not pay the amount immiedtely after you get divorce pay through DD before the migistrate and take acknowledgement on the pettion

@ Want to live,

If you are OK with paying 10 lac amount, then there is nothing ‘legally impermissible’ about it. The amount of alimony generally is a matter of negotiations between the parties depending upon your income and the income of the wife, if any. You can choose to put the condition to her to withdraw/quash all her cases filed against you and part ways by MCD and give her alimony by negotiating with her to an agreeable amount or you can choose to fight out all the cases and prove in the court that it is she who has deserted you and avoid paying her alimony. The choice is yours..

It is not necessary that you pay alimony to her.  However as S.498A is hanging over your head, you may not like to live with the case dragging on and on and visiting court.  So settlement option is accept the offer, ask her to sign MCD and file for quash of all proceedings under S.482 cr.pc. in High court stating that a settlement has been reached at by the concerned parties and as part of MCD all the amounts demanded have been paid off to the wife, hence all proceedings may be quashed.   In fact there is no one to guide you.  If you had done this when you paid that dowry amount and stridhan, they would not have had another chance to demand ten lacs from you.  As there is no one to guide you properly, you are being again asked to pay ten lacs.

Other option, fight in criminal court against S.498A and contest her divorce petition.  Let court decide the amount of maintenance of alimony.  Generally court gives option to husband either maintenance or alimony.  You have to choose between two.  If you contest the case nicely and prove that she is at fault, you need not even pay maintenance or less amount as maintenance.  Take personal care and keep informing what is happening in one maintenance case (if any judgment comes) in another court.  That is to say, if criminal court decides maintenance issue under S.125 crpc first inform the family court that one court has already ordered me to pay maintenance, hence whatever amounts that you may order may be ordered keeping in view the amounts already ordered by criminal court u/s.125 crpc.

mr. chandrashekar has suggested well.....
give time......negotiate....you ight save few lakhs........ females hurry age factor.......use mind over heart......