Supreme Court of India

Pyla Mutyalamma @ Satyavathi v. Pyla Suri Demudu & Anr.

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Reported as [2011] 9 S.C.R. 996
Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 9 August 2011

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Code o;f Criminal Procedure, 1973: c s.125 - Maintenance -· Claim for, entitlement - Held: There is no quarrel with the legal position that during the subsistence of the first marriage and existence of a living wife (first wife), the claim of maintEmance by the second wife cannot be entertained - But proof and evidence of subsistence of an < earlier marriage at the time of solemnizing the second mam·age, has to be adducec1 by the husband taking the plea of subsistence of an earlier marriage and when a plea of subsisting marriage is raised by the respondent-husband, it has to be satisfactorily

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