Yuzvendra Chahal Agrees To Pay Estranged Wife Dhanashree Verma Alimony Of Rs 4.75 Crore: Report

A giant improvement has emerged from the divorce case that includes Indian cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and his spouse Dhanashree Verma. According to an order by the Bombay High Court, the couple has bee allowed to waive a 6-month cooling interval post-divorce. The honourable court docket directs household court docket to resolve the divorce plea of cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and his estranged spouse Dhanashree Verma by March 20. 

Bar and Bench posted on X (previously Twitter): Bombay High Court has overturned a Family Court choice that denied the request to waive the statutory cooling-off interval for the divorce of cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhanashree Verma underneath the Hindu Marriage Act. A bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar has additionally directed the household court docket to resolve the divorce petition by tomorrow contemplating Chahal’s participation within the upcoming IPL.

#Breaking Bombay High Court has overturned a Family Court choice that denied the request to waive the statutory cooling-off interval for the divorce of cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhanashree Verma underneath the Hindu Marriage Act.#BombayHC #YuzvendraChahal pic.twitter.com/5hdwLFEtIM

— Bar and Bench (@barandbench) March 19, 2025

According to Bar and Bench, the couple that received married in December 2020 was dwelling aside since June 2022. Subsequently, a divorce plea was filed earlier than the Family Court, Bandra on February 5, 2025. An software for waiving of the cooling interval was additionally filed together with the petition.

The plea was filed underneath Section 13B of the Hindu Marriage Act for mutual divorce.

The court docket, nonetheless, on February 20 refused to waive the 6 months statutory cooling interval citing partial compliance of a consent time period between Chahal and Verma

As per the consent time period, Chahal had agreed to pay a everlasting alimony of Rs 4 crore 75 lakhs to Verma of which 2 crore 37 lakhs and 55 thousand is already paid. The non-payment of the remainder of the quantity was seen as non-compliance by the household court docket.

The court docket additionally relied on a household counselor’s report citing non-compliance. However, the Bombay High Court famous that the couple had spent over two and a half years aside and that there was compliance with the consent phrases, because it offered for the fee of the remaining quantity