Biased Judgement Against women

Now, husband is entitled to get maintenance

November 17, 2005 19:18 IST


A husband who is unable to support himself is entitled to get
maintenance from his earning wife during the proceedings of the
matrimonial dispute, the Allahabad high court ruled on Thursday.

On a petition filed by one Santosh Kumar Gupta seeking maintenance
from his working wife on the ground that his income was too meagre to
enable him to maintain himself, the Lucknow bench of the court
recently ruled that the provision of interim maintenance during
proceedings of the matrimonial disputes was applicable to both the
spouses.

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The single-judge Bench headed by Justice D P Singh directed the wife
to pay Rs 2,000 per month to Kumar, an employee in the state owned
Uptron Corporation, which had been declared a sick unit following
which the petitioner was getting only Rs 1,000 per month.

His wife, who works in a bank and draws a salary of Rs 13,000 per
month, had filed the divorce petition against him in a family court.

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The husband also filed an application before the court seeking
direction to the wife to pay him maintenance and litigation expenses.

The family court, however, rejected the husband's application.

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