Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 490 · Decided 15 July 2014
Bhuwan Mohan Singh v. Meena & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 490 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 858
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1331/2014
- Decided
- 15 July 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125
Headnote
FAMILY COURT ACT, 1984: C s. 7of1984 Act rlw s. 125, CrPC- Duty of Family Court - Explained Application of wife and child remained pending in Family Court for nine years - Family Court granting maintenance to wife and child from the date of order - Held: Both the approaches, i.e., allowing oblivious of objects and reasons of the Act and restricting the grant of maintenance to the date of order on some kind of individual notion, not only defeat the command of the legislature but also frustrate the hope of wife and the child who are deprived of adequate livelihood *"'.7'"
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