Latest Maintenance Proceedings News & Updates

New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Observing that delays in judicial proceedings cannot operate to the disadvantage of the claimant, the Delhi High Court has held that interim maintenance awarded to a wife and her children under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) should ordinarily be granted from the date of filing the application, rather than from the date of the court’s order. A single-judge Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma modified an order passed by a Family Court, which had…