Alimony is the crucial factor to decide when Relation of husband and wife comes to an end.There are many circumstances where Women not got any alimony but there are also such cases where women got alimony in crores.During My keen search on this wild issue of Alimony I got 50 cases covered by TOI which is splashed as under:
Happy Reading:))
DELHI
November 8, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A woman has been denied alimony from her estranged husband by a
Delhi court after it discovered she deliberately left her job to become
eligible for the sum. Refusing to order the woman's husband to pay
her maintenance, the court noted she had concealed facts. Metropolitan
magistrate Shivali Sharma noted that she had left her job and later took
admission at a private university just to claim maintenance. "Since
the petitioner(woman) has not given any reason for leaving her job and
joining the...
NEWS-INTERVIEWS
December 28, 2013 |
In
the wake of the Hrithik- Sussanne split, the question on everybody's
mind is what next? While both have given statements to the press, talks
about the settlement between the couple have been doing the rounds.
READ: Sussanne will always be the love of my life: Hrithik Roshan
After the super success of Krrish 3 , the Roshans have raked
in a lot of money. According to a report in DNA, Sussanne has
apparently asked for 100 crores from Hrithik as a divorce settlement.
DELHI
November 9, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: A trial court has refused interim maintenance to a woman saying
she was professionally more qualified than her estranged husband, and
had failed to show why she didn't look for a job. The judge
dismissed the woman's plea after noting that she was a graduate from
Delhi University, held a diploma in library science and was once
employed as lab technician in the varsity itself while her husband had
studied till higher secondary. "She has not assigned any reason as
to why...
JAIPUR
June 7, 2012 |
JAIPUR:
If an estranged wife, after filing for divorce through mutual consent
and took money under an agreement, takes a U-turn and subsequently
withdraws consent for divorce and force the husband to pay more money,
then such a step itself is a valid ground for divorce and such U-turn
cannot be allowed to be used to harass the husband, the Rajasthan High
Court has held. The order came on an appeal filed by one Anil
Khatwani against the order of...
DELHI
November 14, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: A trial court has directed a retired school teacher to pay Rs
6,000 alimony per month to his estranged wife after over four decades of
their marriage. The court also granted the woman the right to stay
at her matrimonial house and restrained the man from dispossessing or
disturbing her from "peacefully enjoying" the ground floor of the
premises without due process of law. "Keeping in view the earning
and the admission of the respondent (man), I hereby grant maintenance of
Rs 6,000 per...
MAN-WOMAN
August 2, 2012 |
A
growing number of men are quitting their jobs or being 'disowned' by
the family business to avoid paying alimony to their wives. When
the honey's gone, it's just about the money, isn't it? Ask couples
seeking divorce, and the legal wrangles they end up in while claiming or
evading maintenance could put any movie to shame. Now, to avoid their
spouse from having any monetary advantage over them, men are even
quitting their high paying jobs. Quitting jobs during a divorce plea
has become...
BANGALORE
October 4, 2013 |
BANGALORE:
A Peenya bakery owner landed in a soup after cooking up a story of
armed robbery just to avoid paying alimony to his estranged wife. On
Wednesday night, Ravi Kumar, 48, turned up at the Peenya police station
and lodged a complaint, alleging that four armed men had barged into
his house in Gruhalakshmi Layout, Peenya around 7.30pm and robbed him of
Rs 25,000 cash and 130 grams of gold at knife-point. The case
seemed serious enough for the police to have a closer look.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
November 19, 2004 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
A landmark ruling in Muslim wives' welfare, the Kerala High Court on
Thursday, pronounced that a Muslim woman, even if remarried, was
entitled to monetary relief from her former husband. The
Division Bench comprising Justice Mr M Ramachandran and Justice Mr M
Sasidharan Nambiar observed that under the CrPC a remarried divorcee was
not eligible for alimony but under the Muslim women (Protection of
Rights Act) 1986 Sec-A, remarriage was never mentioned a...
DELHI
November 3, 2011 |
NEW
DELHI: A trial court has denied alimony to a woman who has been living
separately from her husband, saying that she cannot claim
maintenance from her husband if she leaves him out of her own "sweet
will". The court said living separately from the husband was not
sufficient for the wife to claim maintenance as she must prove that her
husband had refused to maintain her despite having sufficient means to
do so. "It is a settled position of law that one cannot...
INDIA
July 19, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: While the Cabinet's decision on Wednesday may appear tipped in
favour of women, a recent study shows that seeking maintenance through
courts is fraught with delays and requires deep pockets. The countrywide
study shows that in nearly 50% cases women did not seek maintenance
from their husbands either because they lacked resources (41.5% women
had no income after separation while 27% earned less than Rs 2,000 per
month) or were unaware. The...
HYDERABAD
July 14, 2010 |
HYDERABAD:
Giving gender equality a fresh twist, a jobless man has sought Rs
8,000 a month as alimony from his 'gainfully' employed partner .
This gender bender case, which has landed at the Andhra
Pradesh High Court, however, gets even more curiouser in its detail. The
couple in question are not legally wedded but have been in a live-in
relationship for the last 10 years and even have a daughter.
The Mahbubnagar-based couple's happily ever after story hit a roadblock
when...
INDIA
June 29, 2013 |
MUMBAI:
Marriages are made in heaven, but a divorce happens on earth and
with it comes the inevitable question of alimony and its tax
implications. In a recent decision the Delhi Income-tax Appellate
Tribunal (ITAT) has held that a lump sum payment received from a former
husband, against relinquishment of monthly maintenance is a capital
receipt and is not taxable. The case relates to a Delhi-based
woman,...
INDIA
July 23, 2011 |
NEW
DELHI: In divorce cases, the courts must factor in the wife's status
and lifestyle while fixing alimony to ensure that she lives in
reasonable comfort but should not grant an amount that would be
repressive for the husband, the Supreme Court has ruled.
"The amount of maintenance fixed for the wife should be such as she can
live in reasonable comfort considering her status and mode of life she
was used to when she lived with her husband," said a bench of Justices P
Sathasivam and B S...
GURGAON
March 26, 2013 |
GURGAON:
Punjab and Haryana high court has reduced the maintenance amount to Rs
12,000 a month after finding that a Gurgaon resident has provided a
rented accommodation to his divorced wife in Gurgaon. The husband
had moved the court for reducing the maintenance amount from Rs 15,000 a
month because he was paying the rent of the house in which his ex-wife
was staying in Gurgaon. During the hearing the wife's counsel submitted
that the petitioner owned three cars and was earning Rs 45,000 per
month.
INDIA
January 5, 2005 |
MUMBAI:
A woman will not be entitled to alimony if she has concealed facts such
as a former marriage, inability to conceive, frigidity, incurable
diseases like leprosy, mental illness or venereal diseases from her
prospective husband. This flows from a judgment of a division bench
of the Bombay high court which denied permanent alimony to a woman whose
marriage was annulled nine years ago on the grounds that she hid her
epilepsy. The bench held that even though the law...
INDIA
May 3, 2009 |
MUMBAI:
The earning capacity and professional qualifications of a woman are to
be considered when deciding on permanent alimony in a divorce case, the
Bombay high court has said even as it declined a former air-hostess's
plea to increase the amount. A division bench comprising
Justices B H Marlapalle and Ravi Deshpande rejected the petition taking
into account the fact that Jaspreet, a resident of Mumbai, had obtained a
diploma in fashion designing and planned to make a career in the city.
AHMEDABAD
March 11, 2008 |
AHMEDABAD:
A Muslim woman from Sabarkantha district fought a legal battle for 20
years to get alimony from her husband, and the Gujarat High Court on
Tuesday stated in an order that she was entitled to get Rs 150 per month
towards maintenance. Yasmina Sheikh had moved the
high court in 1988 claiming that she has a right to get alimony from her
husband, who had divorced her in October 1986. Her contention was that
she had filed application for maintenance in a lower court after they
separated but before the divorce took place.
INDIA
November 20, 2004 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
A landmark ruling in Muslim wives' welfare, the Kerala High Court on
Thursday, pronounced that a Muslim woman, even if remarried, was
entitled to monetary relief from her former husband. The
division bench comprising Justice M Ramachandran and Justice M
Sasidharan Nambiar observed that under the CrPC a remarried divorcee was
not eligible for alimony but under the Muslim women (Protection of
Rights Act) 1986 Sec-A, remarriage was never mentioned a situation.
AHMEDABAD
April 24, 2010 |
AHMEDABAD:
In two similar cases, men after divorcing their wives denied ever
having married them just to avoid claims of alimony. In first case,
Snehal Christian married Parul Patel in 1993 and got the marriage
formally registered with the registrar of marriage at Mehsana. But when
the woman sought alimony after separation in 2009, the husband
refused her the money claiming that he had not married her at all.
However, Snehal overlooked the evidence recorded at the
registrar's office and continued to deny the marriage.
INDIA
December 18, 2004 |
NEW
DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that though bigamy may be illegal
under Hindu law, such a marriage can't be declared immoral and the
'illegal' wife cannot be denied alimony. The ruling came with the apex
court legitimising the maintenance claim of a Hindu wife whose marriage
was declared illegal on grounds that it was bigamy. The court said her
husband was liable to pay alimony to her and maintenance for their
children. "Keeping into consideration the present state of
the statutory Hindu law, a bigamous marriage may be declared illegal
being in contravention of the Hindu Marriage Act, but it cannot be said
to be immoral so as to deny even the right of alimony or maintenance to a
spouse financially weak and economically dependent," said a Bench of
Justices D M Dharmadhikari and H K Sema on separate appeals by the
litigating couple.
AHMEDABAD
February 12, 2010 |
AHMEDABAD:
A businessman quickly transformed into a 'student' without any
source of income before the Gujarat High Court recently. The
transformation came about soon after the court directed a man, Jatin
Gajjar, to pay alimony to his estranged wife and daughter.
Following some differences, a couple of years ago, Sunita Suthar
left her husband Jatin and took her daughter Maitri with her. In 2008,
the wife approached a magisterial court against Gajjar and demanded
maintenance amount for herself as well as for her daughter.
INDIA
March 27, 2008 |
SHIMLA:
A woman from Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh has filed a complaint with the
State Women's Commission seeking alimony from her two husbands who
deserted her. Shoba Devi, in her complaint, said her
husbands of 15 years have re-married, leaving her to fend for herself.
"Being illiterate and jobless, I have no resources to sustain myself and
my three children," she said. She said she belongs to
the state's polyandrous region where even today the practice of a woman
having more than one husband persists because of socio-economic
reasons.
INDIA
April 12, 2004 |
NEW
DELHI: Maintenance is not a bone of contention between estranged
couples only. Even children contest their parents' claim for a
reasonable amount as alimony for survival. The law entitles
destitute parents to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure (CrPC). However, often justice is delayed as
confusion persists on whether only a son is liable to bear the burden of
parents in old age. Section 125(1) CrPC categorically
states that a son or a daughter is liable to maintain the parents.
CHENNAI
October 27, 2010 |
CHENNAI:
Film director M Perarsu's bid to escape payment of Rs 15,000 as monthly
alimony to his estranged wife Shanthi and minor daughter
Viruthika failed, with the Madras high court dismissing his petition
against the family court ruling. Justice T Sudanthiram,
dismissing the revision petition of Perarasu, said: "This court feels
that Shanthi was neglected by her husband (Perarasu) and she was forced
to leave the matrimonial home. The maintenance amount awarded to them by
the trial court is not excessive.
US-CANADA-NEWS
April 27, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A trial court has directed a non-resident Indian to pay a
monthly maintenance of Rs 15,000 to his wife living in the capital,
rejecting his claim that his marriage had never been solemnized with
her. Additional sessions judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta ordered the
man from west Delhi to pay the maintenance to his wife while upholding a
magisterial court's ruling for maintenance. "There is nothing on record
to show prima facie that the respondent (woman) has sufficient means to
maintain herself.
DELHI
November 1, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A trial court has denied maintenance to the estranged wife of a
priest after she was unable to show that she could not maintain herself.
Additional sessions judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta dismissed the
woman's plea, upholding a trial court's order denying her maintenance.
Taking note of the woman's income tax returns for various years, the
judge said her financial condition was not such that she cannot maintain
herself. "The income tax returns of the assessment year 2004-05 and
2005-06, which is in the name of the petitioner (woman)
DELHI
November 25, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: An increment in a man's salary has proved beneficial for his
estranged wife as a trial court raised the monthly maintenance for the
woman by Rs 2,000. Additional sessions judge Poonam A Bamba also
asked the woman to provide the school fees receipts of their minor
children to her husband, a government official, to let him have the
expenses reimbursed from the government. The sessions court ruling
came on the woman's appeal against a September 2009 order of a
magisterial court, which had asked her husband to pay her and their two
minor children a maintenance of Rs 3,500 per month.
AHMEDABAD
September 23, 2010 |
AHMEDABAD:
A settlement outside the court of law during divorce has no value as
far as a wife's right to alimony is concerned. Gujarat high court
has ruled that even if a woman forgoes her right to maintenance in an
out-of-court settlement in writing, she can claim and is entitled to
alimony from her estranged husband. In one such case from
Panchmahal district, Sumitra Jadabhai separated from her husband
Vikramsinh Rathod in 2001. They separated voluntarily through a divorce
deed prepared out of court.
DELHI
January 2, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: Rejecting the plea of a man that he cannot pay maintenance to
his estranged wife as he was unemployed, a trial court has said the
"general tendency" of avoiding paying maintenance to an estranged wife
by a husband on the grounds of unemployment and financial
constraints is unacceptable. "It is a general tendency of husbands
to deflate their income when time comes to provide maintenance to their
wife and child. In such circumstances, many a times courts have to do
some guess work," metropolitan magistrate Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal
said while directing the man to pay Rs 4,000 per month alimony.
AHMEDABAD
April 12, 2010 |
AHMEDABAD:
The special law for divorced Muslim women will not come in the way if a
divorcee seeks alimony from her ex-husband and the man is liable to
maintain the wife till she remarries, the Gujarat High Court ruled in a
15-year-old dispute of maintenance between a separated couple.
In this nearly two-decade of litigation in Valsad, Farida sought
alimony from her ex-husband Shauqat Qureshi in 1992. She sought
maintenance as per the provisions of Section 125 of Criminal Procedure
Code (CrPC)
BANGALORE
June 1, 2012 |
BANGALORE:
As Rebecca D'Souza received a Re 1 coin from her husband Robert Pinto
(names changed) in the presence of their advocates and the family court
judge at Bangalore, the end of their seven-year marriage was marked. As
the judge read out the memorandum of agreement and Rebecca received Re 1
as permanent alimony, those in court were taken aback. "One day,
Rebecca called me and said she didn't want money and would settle the
issue with Re 1. She said she was self-sufficient and didn't want people
to say that she was living off her ex-husband's money," Uppunda S Y
Kumar, Rebecca's counsel said.
TV
June 28, 2012 |
Shweta
Tiwari, best known for her role in Kasautii Zindagi Kay and currently
seen in Parvarish, prefers to keep a low-profile. That's
because her personal life has constantly been under scrutiny, with her
turbulent marriage to Raja Chaudhary and separation being in the
news. Here, she talks about work, life with boyfriend actor Abhinav
Kohli and more... There were rumours of you marrying Abhinav
Kohli... Why would there be 'rumours' of marriage? If I am openly
saying I am dating Abhinav, why would I hide my marriage.
MUMBAI
September 13, 2008 |
MUMBAI:
In a rare case that will warm the hearts of beleaguered husbands, a
Hindu marriage ended on Thursday with the wife paying alimony to her
blind, jobless husband. Deendayal and Gayatri Lulla, a
couple in their mid-40s, had married in 1992, had a daughter in 1993,
lived together until 2000 and got divorced in 2008. Just like any other
divorce tale, you may say, with one spouse dragging the other to court
alleging cruelty and the battle turning bitter over alimony and custody
of children.
RAJKOT
June 23, 2009
BHAVNAGAR:
A renowned physician of the city has been sentenced to 80 days of
imprisonment for refusing to pay alimony to his estranged wife.
Pronouncing the judgment, a family court in Ahmedabad ordered that
Dr VN Kakadiya be imprisoned for 10 days in a month for eight months,
totaling 80 days. The judgment came after Kakadiya's wife Parul moved
family court in Ahmedabad, where she has moved to her parents' house
after the marriage turned sour. The court had earlier asked Kakadiya to
pay a monthly alimony of Rs 7,500 to his wife.
DELHI
September 11, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: This could perhaps be one of the biggest divorce settlements
cleared by a trial court in recent times. A Delhi-based couple has
mutually agreed to part ways after 20 years of marriage with the wife
walking out with Rs five crores as full and final alimony. The final
settlement was recently cleared by a family court in Saket after the
husband—a Delhi-based businessman—agreed to pay Rs five crores towards
the maintenance of his wife and daughter. The couple, which had
married in the year 1992, filed for the divorce in February 2012 and the
husband had initially agreed to pay Rs one crore as the final
settlement for their divorce.
DELHI
February 15, 2012 |
New
Delhi: A senior citizen has been asked by a Delhi court to pay alimony
of Rs 4,000 per month to his estranged wife, who is living separately
from him in the same house. The court asked the man to pay
maintenance amount to the woman after noting that he was living
separately from his wife, son and daughter-in-law in the same house and
was only paying his share of household expenses. The sessions
court's order came on an appeal filed by the man who sought modification
of the trial court's order, asking him to pay Rs 4,500 per month to the
woman, on the ground that his monthly income was not more than Rs
10,000 out of which he was also bearing his grand daughter's educational
and other expenses.
DELHI
October 1, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A TV serial producer on Delhi and Srinagar Doordarshan panels
has been ordered by a court to pay a monthly interim alimony of Rs
33,000 to his former wife. Additional sessions judge T R Naval asked
TV serial producer-cum-director Khurshid Alam to pay the interim
maintenance, saying he owns a number of properties and their value
indicates he has sufficient income. Alam, 52, had challenged the
order saying he is suffering from various ailments, including liver
cancer, and is spending considerable sum on his treatment and is unable
to work since 2003.
DELHI
October 15, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A Delhi court has set aside an order passed by a magistrate,
directing a man to pay Rs 15,000 per month as maintenance to his
estranged wife on the ground that she was employed as a teacher. The
order came on a revision petition filed by the husband, who had said
that a magisterial court had asked him to pay Rs 15,000 as monthly
alimony to his wife but it did not consider the fact that she was
working as a teacher .... The wife, however, contested the plea and
argued that the magistrate had considered all the relevant documents
while deciding the maintenance amount.
SPECIAL-REPORT
April 1, 2012 |
Pooja
Bedi , former actress and talk show host, says she was told while
fighting her divorce case in 2002 that she didn't have much legal
rights. Excerpts of her interview: Was the judicial process
especially difficult being a woman? I was told I didn't have
many legal rights and that fighting for alimony would be a long
drawn-out procedure. Also, a lot of dirty linen would be washed in
public. And, statistically, way back in 2002, women didn't seem to get
adequate alimony or child support.
MUMBAI
October 16, 2008 |
NEW
DELHI: Criticism over Maharashtra government's proposal to treat a
live-in relationship at par with a legal one has prompted the National
Commission for Women (NCW) to allay fears that the government was trying
to legalise bigamy. The law, if cleared, would apply to a
single person, unmarried or divorced. But there has been criticism from
various quarters that the proposed legislation would promote bigamy and
trample the rights of the legal wife and children. NCW chairperson
Girija Vyas said: "We feel that the law should clearly define a person
in a long-term relationship so that this clause is not misused.
INDIA
August 22, 2001 |
new
delhi: the marriage laws amendment bill, 2001, amending various
marriage and divorce laws to ensure that the question of alimony gets
decided expeditiously within 60 days of the application has been passed
by parliament. moving the bill in the rajya sabha, union law minister
arun jaitley said the bill had been introduced in view of the weaknesses
in the law which did not have any provision for providing succour while
the divorce process was underway. the bill was earlier passed by the
lok sabha.
INDIA
December 21, 2010 |
NEW
DELHI: In a grim reminder that maintenance laws in the country continue
to be weak and skewed against women, an independent study has found
that over half of separated or divorced women were fighting legal
battles for alimony in the absence of little or no financial
independence. Indicating that despite inefficiency of the
legal system, women were dependent on it to access their right to
maintenance, a study by Economic Research Foundation said of the
405 women interviewed 213 had asked for maintenance.
AHMEDABAD
October 30, 2009 |
AHMEDABAD:
Kishor Yadav , a contractor in Valsad, married Geeta
Maganlal and both stayed together for 20 years before they separated in
2005. But when the wife sought maintenance, Yadav told the court that he
had not married Geeta at all. The dispute regarding their
marriage has not been resolved even after four years of legal battle,
and Yadav still continues to claim that Geeta is not his wife. On the
other side, Geeta provided sufficient evidence to show that she had
stayed with Yadav for a long period.
DELHI
October 13, 2011 |
NEW
DELHI: A trial court has directed an Indian professor of a European
university to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs 1.5 lakh to his estranged
wife, living in the national capital. Metropolitan magistrate
Pooja Talwar directed the professor to pay Rs 1.5 lakh per month as
alimony to his wife, who lives at Jasola in south Delhi. The
professor is the director of South and South-east Asian Wing of UNIGIS
International of Austria's Salzburg University. "As the salary of
respondent (husband)
INDIA
February 2, 2010 |
AHMEDABAD:
Asking a doctor to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs 15,000 to his
estranged wife, Gujarat High Court on Monday said an alimony
cannot be decided on the basis of a husband's income tax returns because
these papers are not the gospel truth. Rani Tahelramani had
filed a case under Domestic Violence Act against her Vadodara-based eye
surgeon Anup Vidhani. She had also sought maintenance from her
husband but a lower court turned down her plea saying a decision on
her complaint would be taken soon.
RAJKOT
July 10, 2012 |
RAJKOT:
A family court in Rajkot has ordered a doctor from Mendarda in Junagadh
to pay Rs 30,000 per month as alimony to his wife. Dr Rajendra
Ghadiya was married to Niranjana in 1996. Having been deserted after
seven years of marriage, the wife had moved an application before a
family court in December, 2010, seeking alimony for her two minor
children and herself. The petitioner had contended that her
husband was having an extramarital affair. He was also accused of
torturing her before he went on to desert her. She was left to fend for
herself.
US-CANADA-NEWS
June 22, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A non-resident Indian has been asked by a Delhi court to pay an
alimony of Rs 33,000 a month to his estranged wife living here.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ila Rawat ordered Puneet Arora, residing
in Canada with his parents and sister, to pay maintenance to his wife
from January 2010 when she had moved the court for the alimony. The
sessions court's order came on the woman's plea for modification of a
magisterial court order, which had allowed her an alimony of Rs 33,000 a
month but had slated the date of its payment from August 5, 2011, the
day the trial court had given its ruling.
INDIA
August 26, 2008 |
NEW
DELHI: After voicing their protest against the domestic violence and
anti-dowry act, NGOs have targeted the National Commission for Women
(NCW)'s proposal to provide alimony in live-in relationships.
The commission had proposed an amendment to section 125 of the
Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) which includes widening the definition of
"wife" to include a long-term relationship. Criticizing the
move, Mothers and Sisters Initiative (MASI) and All India Forgotten
Women (AIFW)
DELHI
May 30, 2011 |
NEW
DELHI: A wealthy NRI banker dumped his wife and child and then
concealed his income to pay a paltry alimony. Now, he has been caught in
the act. And his wife has finally got justice from the court. The
Delhi high court has ordered him to pay a maintenance of Rs 70 lakh
to end the matrimonial tussle. The banker is a vice-president of a
Dubai-based multinational bank. Justice Ajit Bharihoke of
the Delhi High Court summoned the banker to Delhi and took
an undertaking from him to settle the matter and pay the amount.
AHMEDABAD
August 3, 2008 |
AHMEDABAD:
The Gujarat High Court has decided to set up a larger Bench to adjudge
the issue of default of payment of alimony afresh. This decision came
after confusion arose over two conflicting judgments by separate
division benches on the same issue. The Bench will finalize
whether men, who fail to pay maintenance amount to their estranged
wives, can be put behind the bars for more than one month.
The debate arose with a petition by Rama Muru Pariya from Khambhaliya,
presently lodged in jail, who has challenged a lower court's order to
imprison him for 980 days.
DELHI
November 29, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A woman's plea for maintenance from her husband, a retired
government employee, was dismissed by a Delhi court as she failed to
show that she was being neglected by him. ASJ Pawan Kumar Jain
dismissed the woman's appeal saying there was no doubt that the
husband has "sufficient means" but the woman, who had married him three
decades ago, cannot be granted maintenance unless she proves he had
refused to maintain her. ...
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