New Delhi: A Delhi court has asked a television serial director and production house owner to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs.33,000 to his estranged wife.

Metropolitan Magistrate Vandana in a recently delivered order asked Khurshid Alam, who directed the teleserial “Mehmood Ghaznavi” telecast by Doordarshan, Srinagar, to pay a monthly maintenance to the petitioner.

The court turned down Alam’s plea that he could not be tried in a court here as he was a native of Jammu and Kashmir. The court found that Alam had a property in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi.