Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1033 · Decided 28 September 2022
Anju Garg & Anr v. Deepak Kumar Garg
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1033 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 909
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1693/2022
- Decided
- 28 September 2022
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, BELA M. TRIVEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125; Constitution Article 39
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 125 - Order for maintenance of wives, children and parents - Basis purpose u/s. 125 - Held: Is to ameliorate the agony, anguish and financial suffering of a woman who is required to leave the matrimonial home, so that some suitable and the children - Husband is required to earn money even by physical labour, if he is an able-bodied, and could not avoid his obligation, except on the legally permissible grounds - On facts, the wife on account of harassment and cruelty by husband, was forced to leave her
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