Madhya Pradesh Court September 1990 Judgments

Sahodri Bai Vs. Surithram

Court: Madhya Pradesh

Reported in: I(1991)DMC606

D.M. Dharmadhikari, J.1. In this revision, at the instance of the wife, the only question for consideration is whether the lower revisional Court was justified in setting aside the order of the Magistrate granting a sum of Rs. 75/- as maintenance to the wife in proceedings under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.2. The applicant wife claimed maintenance from the non-applicant/ husband on the ground that she was ill-treated in the house of the husband and the husband on the pretext of taking her to her father's house boarded the train with her but after the train started, he got down and the wife had to travel all alone to her parents place. Thereafter the non-applicant husband refused to take her back to his village and maintain her. The learned Magistrate after recording the evidence of the wife and the husband came to the conclusion that there was clearly neglect and refusal on the part of the husband to maintain the wife and granted a sum of Rs. 75/- as maintenance, whic...