Supreme Court of India

Dukhtarjahan v. Mohammed Farooq

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Reported as [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1086
Bench A.P. Sen and S. Natarajan JJ.
Decided 20 January 1987

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, section 125, nature of pro­ ceedings under. . High Court's jurisdiction under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure-Whether could interfere with the concurrent find­ ings of the courts below granting maintenance to the child/wife. . Evidence Act, section 112-Rule of law under section 112 as to the legitimacy or otherwise of the child-Whether the factors that the child was born within seven months' time from the date .of the marriage and that the illiterate mother had deposed the child was not born prema­ turely lead to the inference of suppression of

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