New Delhi: An engineer husband has been denied any relief from paying interim maintenance to his spouse by a Delhi court which said his unwillingness to work for last many years was not a sufficient ground "to deprive his wife and child to claim maintenance for their survival".

Additional Sessions Judge Sudesh Kumar, while dismissing the appeal of the man from Jharkhand, said he was supposed to maintain his wife, who happened to be living separately from him due to matrimonial dispute between them.