The Delhi High Court has held that the maintenance proceedings under Section 18 and 20 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, are not suits and the “ad valorem” court fee is not liable to be paid in such cases. A division bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vikas Mahajan observed that imposition of a condition on a wife or a child who have been neglected and do not...