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Madras High Court: <\/strong>K. Murali Shankar, J., addressed the issue with regard to payment of maintenance, whether from the date of application or date of order.<\/p>\n

Factual Matrix<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In the present matter, the second respondent is the mother and respondents 3 and 4, brothers of the first respondent who had married the petitioner. After a while misunderstandings arose between the petitioner and first respondent due to which they started living separately.<\/p>\n

Petitioner had filed a maintenance case earlier and the Magistrate passed an order directing the first respondent to pay monthly maintenance at Rs 5,000 per month to the petitioner and her minor children.<\/p>\n

Petitioner\u2019s case<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Petitioner stated that in order to avoid the payment of maintenance, respondents conspired and took the petitioner and her children to Chennai so as to resume their cohabitation. In the period of two months that the petitioner lived with first respondent, she was harassed and tortured physically and mentally and the petitioner was forcefully sent out of the matrimonial home by forcibly retaining the minor children.<\/p>\n

In view of the above petitioner invoked the provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic violence Act, 2005.<\/p>\n

Trial Court passed impugned order, wherein first respondent was directed to pay the maintenance of Rs 5,000. On not being satisfied with the maintenance amount also the order of the trial court directing the first respondent to pay maintenance from the date of the order, petitioner\/wife came forward with the present revision.<\/p>\n

Analysis<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 does not provide the date from which the maintenance to be awarded and there is no provisions in the Hindu Adoption and Marriage Act with respect to the date from which the maintenance order may be made effective. But, at the same time, Section 125(2) CrPC, contemplates that the Magistrate may award maintenance either from the date of order or from the date of application.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>In the Supreme Court decision of Jaiminiben Hirenbhai Vyas v. Hirenbhai Rameshchandras Vyas, <\/em>(2015) 2 SCC 385<\/a>, it was held that Section 125 CrPC, impliedly requires the Court to consider making the order for maintenance effective from either of the two dates, having regard to the relevant facts.<\/p>\n

It is neither appropriate nor desirable that a Court simply states that maintenance should be paid from either the date of order or the date of the application in matters of maintenance.<\/em><\/p>\n

As per Section 354(6) of the CrPC, the Court should record reasons in support of the order passed by it, in both eventualities and that the purpose of the provision is to prevent vagrancy and destitution in society and the Court must apply its mind to the options having regard to the facts of the particular case.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court in its decision of Rajnesh v. Neha,<\/em>2020 SCC OnLine SC 903<\/a>, after analyzing the provisions in various enactment of the Judgments of the appeal and considering the divergent views taken by the various Courts issued necessary direction to bring about the uniformity in the orders passed by all the Courts.<\/p>\n

Right to claim maintenance must date back to the date of filing of the application, since the period during which maintenance proceedings remained pending is not within the control of the applicant. Considering the above, the Supreme Court categorically directed that all the<\/strong> Courts award maintenance from the date of application.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Conclusion<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In the present matter, the petitioner had filed the case in the year 2014 and the impugned order was passed on 11-07-2017.<\/p>\n

In view of the above discussion, Court held that it has no hesitation to hold that the impugned order granting maintenance from the date of order is liable to be set aside and the petitioner would be entitled to get maintenance from the date of application.<\/p>\n

Hence, criminal revision case was partly allowed. [Mohamed Nisha Banu v. Mohamed Rafi, 2021 SCC OnLine Mad 801<\/b><\/a>, decided on 17-02-2021]<\/p>\n

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Advocates who appeared for the parties:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For petitioner : S.M. Jinnah<\/span><\/p>\n

For Respondent: No appearance<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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