India, Nov. 7 -- Supreme Court has asked Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami and the government of West Bengal to respond to a plea filed by the former's estranged wife seeking revision in the maintenance she is getting from the cricketer after their divorce.

While hearing the plea filed by Hasin Jahan, Shami's wife, the Supreme Court bench made an oral remark saying that on an interim basis, the maintenance that the Calcutta high court had ordered Shami to pay his wife and daughter every month is "quite handsome", reports news agency ANI.

This comes months after Shami was ordered by the Calcutta high court to pay his estranged wife Hasin Jahan a monthly amount of Rs.4 lakh, including maintenance for the couple's daughter.

The order was pa...