The Allahabad High Court recently stressed the need for the courts to act with greater sensitivity and urgency in deciding maintenance applications filed under Section 125 CrPC (or Section 144 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023), observing that in most of such cases, the 'sufferer' is the wife. A bench of Justice Nalin Kumar Srivastava made these remarks while directing a...