{"id":226190,"date":"2020-02-25T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=226190"},"modified":"2020-02-29T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T11:52:35","slug":"del-hc-maintenance-provisions-of-s-125-crpc-are-for-the-welfare-of-neglected-wives-children-and-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/02\/25\/del-hc-maintenance-provisions-of-s-125-crpc-are-for-the-welfare-of-neglected-wives-children-and-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Del HC | [Maintenance] Provisions of S. 125 CrPC are for the welfare of neglected wives, children and parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Delhi High Court: <\/strong>Manoj Kumar Ohri, J., while addressing the present petition against the order of family Court wherein the petitioner\u2019s maintenance petition under Section 125 CrPC was dismissed, held that,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cMerely because the wife is \u2018capable of earning\u2019 is not a sufficient reason to deny her the maintenance.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner\u2019s counsel contended that Family Court wrongly came to the conclusion that petitioner\u2019s testimony in absence of any documentary evidence was unreliable. It erred in not recording a finding with respect to the income of the respondent and the maintenance sought by petitioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Respondent\u2019s counsel submitted that petitioner had passed the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) exam and was capable of earning. Further, it stated that the petitioner was more qualified than the respondent and could maintain herself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>High Court\u2019s Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court noted that in the maintenance petition it was mentioned that respondent used to demand a Santro car despite the fact that one motorcycle was given in dowry.\u00a0 During the petitioner\u2019s pregnancy, she was physically assaulted by the respondent and his family members that resulted in her miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On one occasion she was physically assaulted and thrown out of the matrimonial home, hence she had to live separately as the respondent was deserted and she had no other source of income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family Court had disbelieved petitioner\u2019s testimony on the ground that no documentary evidence was placed in support of her allegations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cIt is well settled by catena of judicial precedents that the provisions of Section 125 CrPC are for the welfare of the neglected wives, children and parents and that provisions should construed liberally.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court stated that family court failed to take into account the petitioner\u2019s claim that she was forced to leave the matrimonial home on account of dowry demands and physical assault. And petitioner\u2019s testimony was supported by her complaint to the CAW Cell which was proved on record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench also found the averment in her petition that specifically averred that she had no source of income and was totally dependent on her father. The respondent being employed had sufficient means to maintain her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Expression \u201cunable to maintain herself\u201d does not mean that the wife must be absolutely destitute before she can apply for maintenance under Section 125 of CrPC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the above, Court referred to the Supreme Court decision in, <em>Vinny Parmvir Parmar v. Parmvir Parmar, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/miaXv4YQ\">(2011) 13 SCC 112<\/a>. Along with this, Court also observed the decision of the Supreme Court in <em>Sunita Kachwaha. v. Anil Kachwaha, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/46mPWkKk\">(2014) 16 SCC 715<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, in view of the above, the High Court held that impugned order is to be set aside and matter to be remanded back to the family court for fresh consideration. [Anita v. Amit,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/nuHfw1M1\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Del 468<\/b><\/a>, decided on 24-02-2020]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court: Manoj Kumar Ohri, J., while addressing the present petition against the order of family Court wherein the petitioner\u2019s maintenance <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[39752,2549,31728,29649,12531],"class_list":["post-226190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-family-court-order","tag-maintenance","tag-maintenance-petition","tag-physical-assault","tag-section-125-crpc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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