Supreme Court of India

Smt. Kanchan Devi v. Promod Kumar Mittal

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Decided 3 April 1996

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with the judgment we wish to record, as admitted before us, that all the four daughters of the parties are living with the husband and he has been maintaining them ever since.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T DR. ANAND.J. Leave granted. The marriage between the parties was solemnised on 18.4.73. According to the appellant she was thrown out of the matrimonial home, after she gave birth to four female children one after the other which annoyed her in-laws. Thereafter the respondent husband neglected and refused to maintain her which compelled her to file an application for maintenence under Section 125 Cr.P. .…

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