Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 22 · Decided 27 January 1988
Bakulbhai and ANR. v. Gangaram & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 22 · [1988] 2 S.C.R. 787
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 579/1986
- Decided
- 27 January 1988
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, L.M. SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125, 397(3), 125(1); Hindu Marriage Act Section 11, 16, 16(1)
Headnote
B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Sections 125 & 397(3)­ Maintenance for wife and child-Entitlement-Maintainability of Revision application-Enhancement of maintenance• allowance to child-Due to inflation and growing age-Permissibility of. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: Sections 11 and of the child born out of such wedlock-Entitlement of maintenance for such woman and child. c The appellant filed an application under Section 125 Cr.P.C. D before the Judicial Magistrate, claiming maintenance for herself and her son, alleging lawful marriage with the respondent, and that
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