{"id":265715,"date":"2022-04-21T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=265715"},"modified":"2022-04-28T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:54:15","slug":"nly-continuous-and-repeated-acts-of-adultery-and-or-cohabitation-in-adultery-would-attract-rigours-of-provision-under-s-1254-crpc-delhi-high-court-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/04\/21\/nly-continuous-and-repeated-acts-of-adultery-and-or-cohabitation-in-adultery-would-attract-rigours-of-provision-under-s-1254-crpc-delhi-high-court-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Only continuous and repeated acts of adultery and\/or cohabitation in adultery would attract rigours of provision under S. 125(4) CrPC: Del HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Delhi High Court: <\/strong>While addressing a matter with regard to a wife\u2019s right to maintenance Chandra Dhari Singh, J., expressed that, only continuous and repeated acts of adultery and\/or cohabitation in adultery would attract the rigours of the provision under Section 125(4) CrPC.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Factual Matrix<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A criminal petition was filed seeking to set aside the decision by Family Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instant petition had been filed against the order of the Additional Principal Judge filed by the respondent under Section 125 of the CrPC, whereby the Additional Principal Judge granted maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner impugned the order dated 31-7-2020, which enhanced the maintenance amount.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Analysis, Law and Decision<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the present matter, the maintenance order was challenged on the grounds of cruelty, adultery, desertion without reason as well as the fact that the wife was capable enough of maintaining herself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various Supreme Court and High Court decisions have established the position of payment of maintenance holding that the ground of cruelty does not disentitle the wife of her right to maintenance. In fact, in cases where divorce is granted on the ground of cruelty, Courts have awarded permanent alimony to the wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ground of cruelty and harassment do no stand ground for non-payment of the maintenance amount.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bench expressed that the codified law and judgments of various High Courts settle the position with respect to the bar of adultery for grant of maintenance in favour of the wife.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Law mandates that in order to extract the provision under Section 125(4) CrPC the husband has to establish with definite evidence that the wife has been living in adultery, and one or occasion acts of adultery committed in isolation would not amount o \u2018living in adultery\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bombay High Court decision in <em>Pandurang Bakru Nathe v. 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Narayanan, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/1JrCMEX1\">1999 SCC OnLine Ker 64<\/a> was also relied on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court found that the law as interpreted by the High Courts, evinces that only continuous and repeated acts of adultery and\/or cohabitation in adultery would attract the rigours of the provision under Section 125(4) CrPC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petitioner could not establish prima facie that the respondent was living in adultery, hence the respondent was not entitled to any maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concluding the matter, Court declined to allow the instant petition, since the petitioner had failed to show any ground for challenging the order under the revisional jurisdiction of this Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, Bench did not find any cogent reason to interfere with the impugned order and judgment. [Pradeep Kumar Sharma v. 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