Supreme Court of India
Shantha @ Ushadevi and Anr. v. B.G. Shivananjappa
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What the Court ordered
For the above reasons, we set aside the impugned order of the High Court and restore the order passed by the Additional District Judge, Tumkur in Cr!. R.P. No. 194 of 2000.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Sections 125(3), 'first proviso' and 125(1)-Arrears of Maintenance Claimfor-Limitation-Trial court orflered maintenance to wife and daughter under S.125(1)-Petition filed by wife for recovery of maintenance but no payment made by husband-Instead, he filed revision in Sessions Court and then in High Court which were dismissed-Thereafter wife filed IA in the pending petition claiming, maintenance for the entire period-Challenge to, , on gro_und of being time ba~red under proviso to S. 12 5(3) Cr(' -Held: IA ~ cannot be dismissed as time-barred as the petition
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 mentioned
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