Husband Cannot Escape Maintenance Liability by Claiming Wife Left Matrimonial Home Voluntarily: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has upheld a Family Court order directing a husband to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, holding that refusal or neglect under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code does not always need to be expressed through words and can also be inferred from the conduct of the husband. The judgment was delivered by Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court…
