Supreme Court of India

Bakulbhai and Anr. v. Gangaram & Anr.

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Reported as [1988] 2 S.C.R. 787
Bench Ranganath Misra and L.M. Sharma JJ.
Decided 27 January 1988
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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Sections 125 & 397(3)­ Maintenance for wife and child-Entitlement-Maintainability of Revision application-Enhancement of maintenance• allowance to child-Due to inflation and growing age-Permissibility of. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: Sections 11 and 16-Hindu woman marrying a Hindu male already married and his wife living-Validity of-Legitimacy of the child born out of such wedlock-Entitlement of maintenance for such woman and child. c The appellant filed an application under Section 125 Cr.P. . before the Judicial Magistrate, claiming maintenance for herself and

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