In a Muslim man’s plea against direction to pay interim maintenance to his divorced wife, the Supreme Court is set to consider the question whether a Muslim woman is entitled to maintain a petition under Section 125 CrPC.
The Bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih recently heard a case emanating from a Family Court order which, in a Section 125 CrPC petition preferred by a Muslim woman, directed the petitioner (her husband) to pay interim maintenance @ Rs.20,000 per month. This order was challenged before the High Court of Telangana, on the basis that the parties got divorced as per personal laws in 2017 and there was a divorce certificate to that effect, but the same was not considered by the Family Court.