Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 791 · Decided 19 November 2010
Saygo Bai v. Chueeru Bajrangi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 791 · [2010] 13 S.C.R. 1020
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2169/2010
- Decided
- 19 November 2010
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125(3), 125, 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.125(3), second proviso; Explanation - Maintenance - Claim by abandoned c wife for maintenance - Courts below relying upon the admission by the wife that she herself left the matrimonial home and when her husband came to take her back,· she refused to go to maintenance - Correctness of - Held: Not correct - In the 0 wake of the admitted second marriage of the husband, wife would be entitled to claim maintenance and her earlier refusal to join the company of the husband would be of no consequence - The orders passed by the courts below were
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