Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 31 · Decided 11 January 2011
Manoj Yadav v. Pushpa @ Kiran Yadav & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 31 · [2011] 1 S.C.R. 644
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 107/2001
- Decided
- 11 January 2011
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: c s.125 - Maintenance to wife - Enhanced by High Court to Rs. 40001- per month - ·Challenged - Plea that State .amendment allowed maintenance upto Rs.30001- per month only - HELD: Section 125 has been further amended in Madhya Pradesh by a subsequent any upper limit in the maintenance to be granted u/s 125 and it is left to the discretion of the Magistrate - Moreover, after the amendment to s. 125, by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2001 which deleted the words "not exceeding five hundred rupees in the whole",
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