{"id":244953,"date":"2021-03-04T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T08:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=244953"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T08:46:58","slug":"maintenance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/03\/04\/maintenance-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ker HC | If a neglected wife is being maintained by her eldest son, would that exempt the husband from his liability to maintain the wife under S. 125 CrPC? HC explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kerala High Court: <\/strong>Mary Joseph, J., while addressing an issue of maintenance under Section 125 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, expressed that the said provision does not say that wife, children or parents who are at the mercy of the parents, grandparents or relatives are not entitled to get monthly maintenance or else in the case of a wife, children or parents who are neglected and surviving at the mercy of other near relatives are not entitled to get maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Respondents in the present matter had sought for enhancement of the sum ordered originally by the Family Court as monthly maintenance which was ordered at the rate of Rs 1,000 but the petitioner defaulted in payment after some time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Revision petitioner contended that he was physically handicapped and that the eldest of the children being employed and financially affluent were maintaining the respondents. Hence, due to being devoid of any means of livelihood he submitted that he was not liable to maintain the respondents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner had proved before the Family Court that the respondent was remarried and respondents contention that he had no means and therefore was not liable to pay maintenance to the petitioners could not be accepted for the sole reason that he got married secondly and begotten children.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Muslim Personal Law is self-contained of the obligation of the husband to maintain his wife by providing her with food, clothing and lodging. In the Code, a legal recognition is given to the right of a deserted wife, son\/daughter, and parents who are unable to maintain themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Section 125 CrPC specifically provides that wife, children or parents unable to maintain themselves are entitled to receive monthly maintenance from a male who holds status respectively with reference to them as husband, father or son.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench held that the Husband cannot be exonerated from his legal obligation to maintain on the ground that deserted or neglected ones are surviving somehow or else being maintained by someone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence, the Family Court rightly appreciated the evidence and passed the impugned orders modifying the monthly maintenance payable to the petitioner justly and reasonably. [Mohammedkunhi v. 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