Section 125 CrPC- Maintenance Order Not To Be Stayed Unless For Very Special Reasons: SC [Read Order]

Ashok Kini

25 Sept 2019 9:40 PM IST

"A husband/father is duty bound to maintain his wife and child. Unless there are very special reasons, the higher Court should not normally stay such an order. "

Higher Courts should not stay an order of maintenance unless there are very special reasons, the Supreme Court has observed. In this case, a wife and minor child filed a petition under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code before Family Court. An ex parte order was passed by the Family Court granting maintenance @ Rs.20, 000. The husband preferred application for setting aside the ex...

Section 125 CrPC- Maintenance Order Not To Be Stayed Unless For Very Special Reasons: SC [Read Order]

Ashok Kini

"A husband/father is duty bound to maintain his wife and child. Unless there are very special reasons, the higher Court should not normally stay such an order. "

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