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- The Allahabad High Court has ruled that a woman is entitled to maintenance under Section 125 CrPC even if her marriage is void because the husband concealed his existing marriage.
- The court said a husband cannot take advantage of his own wrong to deny maintenance to a woman who married without knowing of his subsisting earlier marriage.
- The case involved a Mathura couple who married in December 2016, while the husband's first marriage was dissolved only in November 2017.
- The court dismissed the husband's challenge to the maintenance order and partly allowed the wife's plea for enhancement of the ₹6,000 monthly amount.
What to watch next
- The final enhanced maintenance amount to be set by the court or family court
- Whether this ruling is cited in other void-marriage maintenance cases
- Any appeal by the husband against the high court's decision
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Named India · Manoj Kumar · Mathura Family Court · Monika · Allahabad High Court · Garima Prashad
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