Supreme Court of India

Chanmuniya v. Virendra Kumar Singh Kushwaha & Anr.

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Reported as [2010] 12 S.C.R. 223

Bench G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.

Decided 7 October 2010

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From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 19 73 - s. 125 - Maintenance under - Claim of - Interpretation of word 'wife' in s. 125 - Divergent views in earlier decision of Supreme Court - Issues: (1) whether living together of a man and woman as husband and wife for a considerable period of time would raise presumption of valid marriage between them and would entitle the woman to maintenance u/s. 125- (2) whether strict proof of marriage essential for claim of maintenance u/ s. 125 having regard to the provisions of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 - (3) whether marriage performed

Authorities it was built on

1952 Thakur Gokalchand v. Parvin Kumari cited by 18
1991 K. Vimala v. K. Veeraswamy cited by 17
1988 Smt. Yamunabai Anantrao Adhav v. Anantrao Shivram Adhav and Another cited by 15
1978 Ramesh Chander Kaushal v. Veena Kaushal & Ors. cited by 11
2008 Tulsa and Ors. v. Durghatiya and Ors. cited by 8
1999 Dwarika Prasad Satpathy v. Bidyut Prava Dixit and Anr. cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2025 Smt. N. Usha Rani and Anr. v. Moodudula Srinivas referred to
2020 Rajnesh v. Neha & Anr. referred to
2018 Kamala and Others v. M.R. Mohan Kumar referred to
2013 Bad Shah v. Sou.urmila Badshah Goose & Anr referred to
2026 Himanshu Chordia v. State of Rajasthan mentioned

Of those, 4 referred to · 1 mentioned

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