Supreme Court of India

Bhuwan Mohan Singh v. Meena & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 8 S.C.R. 858
Bench Dipak Misra and V. Gopala Gowda JJ.
Decided 15 July 2014

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid, we direct that while paying the maintenance as fixed by the learned Family Court Judge per month by 5th of each G succeeding month, the arrears shall be paid in a proportionate manner within a period of three years from today.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

FAMILY COURT ACT, 1984: s. 7of1984 Act rlw s. 125, CrPC- Duty of Family Court - Explained Application of wife and child remained pending in Family Court for nine years - Family Court granting maintenance to wife and child from the date of order - Held: Both the approaches, i.e., allowing adjournments in extremely o liberal manner remaining oblivious of objects and reasons of the Act and restricting the grant of maintenance to the date of order on some kind of individual notion, not only defeat the command of the legislature but also frustrate the hope of wife and the child who are deprived of

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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