S.125 CrPC | Woman Can't Claim Maintenance As Live-In Partner Without Pleading Or Proving Such Relationship: Allahabad High Court

Upasna Agrawal

30 July 2026 11:45 AM IST

  • S.125 CrPC | Woman Cant Claim Maintenance As Live-In Partner Without Pleading Or Proving Such Relationship: Allahabad High Court

    The Allahabad High Court has held that a woman seeking maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. cannot invoke the protection extended to live-in partners where she has neither pleaded such a relationship nor established that a marriage took place. It held that this is all the more so where the man has categorically denied having any relationship with her.Justice Lakshmi Kant Shukla...

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