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Some years back, I was sucked into the labyrinth of Indian Matrimonial laws and a false 498a in particular. To be fair, before it hit me, it was difficult for me to fathom the wide spread misuse of dowry laws and specially 498a in India.

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Maintenance

EMIs Don’t Justify Reducing Maintenance to Wife and Child

Delhi High Court Justice Dr. Swarana Kanta Sharma, J xxxxx vs xxxxx on 01 July, 2025 Law Point: Only mandatory deductions allowed; voluntary EMIs can’t reduce maintenance; delay harms dependent’s dignity, sustenance JUDGEMENT 1. By way of this revision petition, the petitioner-husband has challenged the order dated 01.08.2024 [hereafter „impugned order‟] passed by the learned […]

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SUNDER LAL SAINI Vs. MEENA SAINI

Court: DELHI HIGH COURT Bench: JUSTICE Subramonium Prasad SUNDER LAL SAINI Vs. MEENA SAINI on 9 November 2021 Law Point: (i) Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 125 — Maintenance — Grant of ‘wife’ — Section 125 Cr.P.C. is a tool for social justice enacted to ensure that women and children are protected from a […]

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No Maintenance to Woman as Marriage or Live in not Proven by her. Maintenance only to children.

Court: ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT Bench: JUSTICE Sangeeta Chandra KAHKASHAN & ORS. Vs. UMESH KUMAR GUPTA @ ABBAS HUSAIN KAHKASHAN On 18 April 2022 Law Point: Section 125 — Maintenance — Grant of — No proof of marriage by Muslim rites and rituals of revisionist No. 1 with respondent — Revisionist could not prove even live-in […]

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Magistrate can Review its own order of Maintenance order u/s 125 CrPC

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUSTICE Ashok Bhushan, K.M. Joseph Sanjeev Kapoor Vs. Chandana Kapoor On 19 February 2020 Law Point: Magistrate can review order passed u/s 125 Crpc, Bar u/s 362 Crpc not applicable. JUDGEMENT This appeal has been filed against the judgment of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh dated 05.11.2019 […]

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Magistrate can Review Order passed u/s 125 CrPC

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUSTICE Ashok Bhushan, K.M. Joseph Sanjeev Kapoor Vs. Chandana Kapoor On 19 February 2020 Law Point: Magistrate can review order passed u/s 125 CrPC, Bar u/s 362 Crpc not applicable. JUDGEMENT This appeal has been filed against the judgment of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh dated 05.11.2019 […]

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Income of Wife to be Taken in Account While Determining Maintenance

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUSTICE Y. V. Chandrachud, R. S. Sarkaria And A. C. Gupta Bhagwan Dutt Vs. Kamla Devi & Anr. On 7 October 1974 Law Point: Separate Income of Wife can be taken into Account in determining the amount of maintenance payable to her. JUDGEMENT 1. Can the income of the wife be […]

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Rana Pratap Singh vs Neetu Singh And 2 Others

Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: Justice Surendra Singh-I Rana Pratap Singh vs Neetu Singh And 2 Others on 29 March, 2024 Law Point: Maintenance under CrPC 125 is based on gross salary; only statutory deductions like income tax apply, not loans or insurance. JUDGEMENT 1. Heard Sri Ashok Kumar Shukla, learned counsel for the revisionist and […]

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Bhupendra Singh Notey vs Gagandeep Kaur

Court: Orissa High Court Bench: Justice G. Satapathy Bhupendra Singh Notey vs Gagandeep Kaur on 30 January, 2025 Law Point: The Orissa High Court criticized educated men who stay jobless to avoid maintenance and rejected the husband’s plea in this case. JUDGEMENT 1. This writ petition by the petitioner-husband is directed against the impugned order dated […]

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Maintenance Denied to Wife as She Had Taken Money from Husband During Marriage

Court: Family Court of Gurugram XXXXXXXX vs XXXXXXXXXXX Law Point: Maintenance Denied to Wife as She Had Taken Money from Husband During Marriage JUDGEMENT 1. This order of mine shall dispose of an application filed by applicant-respondent-wife for grant of interim maintenance u/s 24 of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. 2. It has been vehemently contended […]

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Vishnu Saraf Vs Aashita Singhania Nee Saraf

Court: High Court At Calcutta Bench: Justice Suvra Ghosh Vishnu Saraf Vs Aashita Singhania Nee Saraf on 10 January, 2025 Law Point: Earning Wife who takes half money of Settlement is not entitled for maintenance u/s 125 CrPC JUDGEMENT 1. The petitioner who is the husband of the opposite party is aggrieved by the order […]

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