Supreme Court of India

Iqbalbano v. State of U.P. and Anr.

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Reported as [2007] 7 S.C.R. 949
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasayat and D.K. Jain JJ.
Decided 5 June 2007

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we set aside the order impugned of the High Court and remit the matter for fresh consideration.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 s.125-Claim for maintenance by Muslim wife from her husband- Maintainability of-Held: Conclusion by revisional court that in view of assertion in written statement about alleged divorce by utterance of words "Talak" "Talak" "Talak" three times and mentioning this in written statement amounted in law to divorce is not sustainable-Besides, proceedings uls. 12 5 Cr.P. . are civil in nature-Even if court notices that the claimant was a divorcee it was open to court to treat the petition one under Muslim Woman (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act-High Court would

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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