In a major increase in the court fight that looks to be a little more serious, the Indian star pacer Mohammed Shami now faces fresh issues as his estranged wife, Hasin Jahan, brings these two major demands to the Supreme Court of India, as a large hike in her monthly maintenance and transfer of all cases pending in the court from Kolkata to Delhi.
The battle has been simmering but took a turn this week after the Supreme Court issued a fresh notice to the cricketer on February 18, 2026.
The battle for a "standard of living."
Now with a Calcutta High Court order from July 2025, Shami is paying ₹4 lakh month of interim maintenance for Hasin Jahan at least ₹1.5 lakh a month and their minor daughter of 2.5 lakh. But Jahan has taken this amount before the Supreme Court to the Court to recover the amount that she demanded in the first place for ₹10 lakh a month ₹7 lakh for her and ₹3 lakh for their child.
Her legal counsel argued:
- Shami’s Livelihood: They assert the Shami’s yearly earnings range from around ₹48 crore to ₹60 crore, where the current ₹4 lakh is ‘grossly inadequate’.
- Lifestyle Disparity: While Shami is living an “ultra-luxurious” life with luxury automobiles and world travel, his family is falling into relative “financial deprivation,” Jahan states.
- Child's Education: She claims that their daughter deserves to have access to the same premium education and lifestyle as their counterparts in the elite Indian cricketers.
Even in sending out the notice the Supreme Court bench asked in a famous interview: "Isn't ₹4 lakh per month already plenty of dough?" it was said. Yet the court has demanded a formal response from Shami and the West Bengal government.
Transferring the Battle to the Capital
And, Hasin Jahan has petitioned the Supreme Court to remit every matrimonial and Domestic Violence Act case from Kolkata to Delhi in a new petition, filed on February 18, 2026. Why said he had to make the move is:
- Transfer to Delhi: Jahan permanently relocates to Delhi to send her daughter to a "premium school," with the intent of taking care of her overall development. Financial hardship: She alleges that travelling 1,500 km to West Bengal for each hearing led to severe financial and physical hardship, because she does not have any other source of income.
- Proximity for Shami: The plea notes that, since Shami is based in Amroha, UP, and he travels globally, there would be more logistic ease in fighting cases in Delhi for both of them.
A long-standing dispute
The split began to open in 2018, when Jahan confronted and brought out accusations of domestic violence, infidelity, and match-fixing that he made and was cleared off by BCCI. While Shami has denied he ever indulged the accusations of abuse, the financial struggle continues to mount with increasing frequency to an increasing extent.
The Supreme Court has given Shami four weeks to answer these fresh petitions. In late March 2026, a hearing is planned.
