Supreme Court of India
Bhuwan Mohan Singh v. Meena & Ors.
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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
Authorities it was built on
- 1991 K. Vimala v. K. Veeraswamy
- 2005 Savitaben Somabhai Bhatiya v. State of Gujarat and Ors.
- 2013 Nagendrappa Natikar v. Neelamma
- 1971 S. R. Y. Sivaram Prasad Bahadur v. The Commissioner of Income Tax Hyderabad
- 1996 Kirtikant D. Vadodaria v. State of Gujarat and Anr.
- 2007 Chaturbhuj v. Sita Bai
- 1987 Dukhtarjahan v. Mohammed Farooq
- 2003 K.A. Abdul Jaleel v. T.A. Shahida
- 2008 Shail Kumari Devi & Anr. v. Krishan Bhagwan Pathak @ Kishun B. Pathak
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Anju Garg & Anr v. Deepak Kumar Garg
- 2017 Santhini v. Vijaya Venketesh
- 2025 Rina Kumari @ Rina Devi @ Reena v. Dinesh Kumar Mahto @ Dinesh Kumar Mahato and Another
- 2024 Mohd. Abdul Samad v. The State of Telangana & Anr.
- 2020 Rajnesh v. Neha & Anr.
Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to
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