Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 17 · Decided 20 January 1987
Dukhtarjahan v. Mohammed Farooq
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 17 · [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1086
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 13/1981
- Decided
- 20 January 1987
- Bench
- A.P. SEN, S. NATARAJAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125, 482; Evidence Act Section 112; Constitution Article 134A
Headnote
A Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, section 125, nature of pro­ ceedings under. B. High Court's jurisdiction under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure-Whether could interfere with the concurrent find­ C ings of the courts below granting maintenance to the child/wife. C. Evidence that the child was born within seven months' time from the date .of the marriage D and that the illiterate mother had deposed the child was not born prema­ turely lead to the inference of suppression of the factum of the mother being enceinte at the time of marriage. The appeUant and the
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