Supreme Court of India
MANOJ YADAV versus PUSHPA @ KIRAN YADAV & ORS.
- Decided
- 11 January 2011
- Judges listed
- MARKANDEY KATJU, GYAN SUDHA MISRA
- Disposal
- Dismissed
Citations
- Official
- [2011] 1 S.C.R. 644 · 2011 INSC 31
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.. Heard learned c;ounsel for the parties.
p. 645, margin A
We also wish to express our appreciation of Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, learned t:ounsel, whom we had appointed as Amicus Curiae in the case, and she has been of great ::issistance to us.
p. 645, margin B
Leave granted.
p. 645, margin C
This Appeal· has been filed against the impugned judgment of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Bench at Gwalior, dated 23.01.2009 passed in Criminal Revision No. 12/2008. That judgment was given in a criminal revision filed against the order dated 04.10.2007 of the learned Additional Family Court, Gwalior granting maintenance of Rs. 1,500/- per month under Section 125 Cr.P .C. to respondent No.1. Respondent No.1 by means of her criminal revision applied for enhancement of the maintenance.
p. 645, margin C
By the impugned judgment the High Court has granted a sum of Rs. 4,000/- per month as maintenance with effect from 01.01 :2009 to the wife-respondent No.1 in this case. That order has been challenged before us.
p. 645, margin E
Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the amount which could be granted as maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. in the State of Madhya Pradesh could at most be ·Rs. 3,000/- in view of the amendment to Section 125 Cr.P.C. by Madhya Pradesh Act 10 of 1998. It appears that Section 125 Cr.P.c. has been further amended in Madhya Pradesh by a subsequent amendment by Madhya Pradesh Act 15 of 2004 which does not contain any upper limit in the maintenance to be granted under Section 125 Cr.P.C. and it is left to the discretion of the magistrate. Hence, there is no substance in the submission of the learned counesl for the appellant.
pp. 645–646, margin F
Moreover, We are of the opinion that after the amendment to Section 125 CrF.C., which is a Central Act, by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2001 which deleted the words "not exceeding five hundred rupees in the whole", all State amendments to Section 125 Cr.P.C. by which a ceiling has be~n fixed to the amount of maintenance to be awarded to the wife have become invalid.
p. 646
For the reasons given above, there is no merit· in the Appeal and it is dismissed acc0rdingly. R.P. Appeal dismissed.
p. 646, margin C