Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife and child - Wife and child have no independent source of income for their survival and at the relevant time child was studying in LKG - Net income of husband is Rs.19,574 - Family Court rightly granting Rs.6,000 to wife and Rs.3,500 to minor daughter as monthly maintenance...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 340 -- Once main case stood compounded, initiation of action on an application filed by a stranger, who had no nexus with original case could not justify continuation of proceedings u/s 340 Cr.P.C...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 340 -- Proceedings u/s 340 Cr.P.C. should not be started casually - Such action can be taken only when Court finds that it is necessary in the interest of justice and that there is some clear material showing an offence which affects the administration of justice...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Framing points for determination is mandatory - Order of maintenance to contain the point or points for determination, decision thereon and reasons for the decision...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance - May be granted upto 25% of the husband's net income...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 493, 496, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Offence u/Ss. 493, 496 IPC - Quashing of proceedings - Ss.493, 496 IPC incorporated in final report filed by police u/s 173(2) Cr.P.C. - However, Court is prescribed from taking cognizance of offences except upon complaint made by aggrieved person - Petitioner cannot be compelled to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Rape - Quashing of proceedings - Prosecutrix maintained sexual relationship with petitioner for 4 years before death of her husband, for 4 years after death of her husband and even after knowing about marriage of petitioner with another lady - Relationship between petitioner and prosecutrix..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.144) - Maintenance to wife - Expression `unable to maintain herself' does not mean that wife must be in a state of penury...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.144) - Maintenance to wife - Even if wife is capable to earn or is earning something, it does not disentitle her from claiming maintenance from her husband...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.144) - Maintenance to wife - Earning wife - Wife's temporary job, even if it provides some income, would not disentitle her to claim maintenance from her husband if she asserts that said income is insufficient for her maintenance...........
