Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Mere fact that wife is gainfully employed is not an absolute bar for awarding maintenance - Court must assess if income is sufficient to sustain a life style commensurate with that enjoyed in matrimonial home...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Husband is a highly successful software engineer who was earning Rs.4,50,000 p.m - TDS records of husband demonstrate a substantial earning capacity - His professional qualifications and past lucrative income signify a continued capacity to meet matrimonial obligations - Wife is also earning - Interim..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 24 -- Maintenance granted to wife u/s 125 Cr.P.C. and maintenance pendente lite u/s 24 of Hindu Marriage Act - Determination of maintenance u/s 125 Cr.P.C. being a final adjudication on entitlement and quantum of maintenance based on appreciation of evidence assumes primacy over any interim..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, 128 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Ss.144, 147) - Enforcement of order passed u/s 125 Cr.P.C (S.144 BNSS) - Gram Nyayalaya has jurisdiction to try and decide applications and cases relating to maintenance under chapter IX Cr.P.C (Chapter X BNSS) - Nyayadhikari of Gram Nyayalaya, directed to decide pending execution..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to major son - Benefit of S.125 Cr.P.C has been expressly restricted till attainment of age of majority by child - Son of petitioner has been a major for the last five years and thus not entitled to maintenance u/s 125(b) Cr.P.C...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife and children - Default in payment - Sentence - Default pertained to 66 months, total sentence of 660 days was imposed after granting benefit of set off - Sentence of ten days for each month of default cannot be said to be disproportionate - Husband himself had surrendered and admitted his liability and..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - When wife discontinued her job due to marital obligations as well as compulsions than she is entitled to get maintenance from husband who is in well paid profession, till she again get the job of sufficient income to maintain herself...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Earning wife - Mere fact that wife is earning is not a valid ground to reject her claim for maintenance...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 340, 125 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Ss.379, 144) - Perjury - Proceedings u/s 125 Cr.P.C. - Merely because wife exaggerated the income of her husband in order to claim maintenance u/s 125 Cr.P.C., it does not mean that such a statement on the part of wife warrants action u/s 340 Cr.P.C...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, 127 -- Maintenance to wife - Merely because husband has certain familial obligations would not absolve him of his primary responsibility to maintain his legally wedded wife...........
