India, May 27 -- NEW DELHI

A Delhi court directed a 49-year-old man to pay the college fee and living expenses of his estranged daughter, who was pursuing a degree course in the USA, observing that she could not be left "high and dry" in between her course in a foreign university.

Family court judge Sunil Gupta of Saket courts, passing the order on Monday, held true the allegations levelled against the father of suddenly cancelling his daughter's flight tickets, in a coercive bid in a domestic violence case filed against him by his wife.

The court noted that the husband had not emphatically denied the allegation that he "blackmailed his two daughters to convince their mother to take her domestic violence case back otherwise he would no...