Supreme Court of India

Saygo Bai v. Chueeru Bajrangi

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Reported as [2010] 13 S.C.R. 1020
Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and T.S. Thakur JJ.
Decided 19 November 2010

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the orders of the Courts below are wholly incorrect.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.125(3), second proviso; Explanation - Maintenance - Claim by abandoned c wife for maintenance - Courts below relying upon the admission by the wife that she herself left the matrimonial home and when her husband came to take her back,· she refused to go back and holding that she was not entitled to maintenance - Correctness of - Held: Not correct - In the 0 wake of the admitted second marriage of the husband, wife would be entitled to claim maintenance and her earlier refusal to join the company of the husband would be of no consequence - The orders passed

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