Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance - Application u/s 125 Cr.P.C should be decided summarily as per procedure prescribed under CPC by Family Court...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife and two minor daughters - Curtailment of right of husband to cross-examine PWs makes the testimony of PWs go totally unrebutted - Order passed by Family Court curtailing the right of husband to cross-examine PWs examined by wife to prove her entitlement to claim maintenance from her husband set aside -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Jurisdiction of Court - Parents of wife are permanent resident of Bareilly and wife has frequent visit thereat - Only for the purpose of job wife stayed at Delhi - Marriage of parties was also solemnized at Bareilly - Permanent address of wife at Bareilly would fall within the contour of `reside' -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Ad interim maintenance - Once the application for interim maintenance was pending and affidavits (of disclosure of assets and liabilities) of rival parties were already on record, family Court ought to have decided the same in a expeditious manner - No compelling or accentuating circumstances are either decipherable from..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 20 -- Maintenance to major unmarried daughter - Where Family Court has jurisdiction to decide a case u/s 125 Cr.P.C. as well as suit u/s 20 of 1956 Act, in such eventuality, Family Court can exercise jurisdiction under both the Acts and in an appropriate case can grant..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Interim maintenance - At the stage of interim maintenance Court cannot hold a threadbare trial to go into every micro detail...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Quantum of maintenance - Filing of affidavits of assets and liabilities of rival parties is pertinent and essential - Family Court granted maintenance to wife without seeking affidavits of assets and liabilities of rival parties - Impugned order set aside...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, 483 -- Application u/s 125 Cr.P.C - Expeditious disposal of application - Family Court exercises jurisdiction of judicial Magistrate while deciding an application u/s 125 Cr.P.C - Application u/s 483 Cr.P.C. seeking a direction to Family Court for expeditious disposal of an application u/s 125 Cr.P.C. would be maintainable...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, 483 -- Application u/s 125 Cr.P.C - Interim maintenance - Pendency of application since 18.04.2023 - Direction be issued to Family Court for expeditious disposal of application for interim maintenance...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 112 -- Maintenance to wife and children - Dispute as to paternity of children - DNA test - Husband refused to go for DNA test - Refusal to undergo DNA test in a paternity dispute can lead to an adverse inference against refusing party - Husband cannot deny paternity of children when he refuses to..........
