S.60(1)(ccc) CPC | Auction Sale of Man's Ancestral Property Over Maintenance Dues Stayed: Delhi High Court

In a recent matter involving a maintenance execution dispute, the Delhi High Court has intervened to stay the auction of a husband’s alleged share in an undivided ancestral property. The stay was granted after the Petitioners, including the husband’s brothers, raised serious concerns under Section 60(1)(ccc), Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, which protects the only residential dwelling house of a judgment-debtor from attachment and sale. Maintenance orders and execution proceedings…