LAW FOR ALL

HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH BENCH AT GWALIOR- Section 125 CrPC is a measure of social justice and is specially enacted to protect women and children =the applicant is entitled for monthly maintenance amount of Rs.5,000/- per month= This being the position in law, it is the obligation of the husband to maintain his wife. He cannot be permitted to plead that he is unable to maintain the wife due to financial constraints as long as he is capable of earning.-Thus, it is clear that not only the wife is entitled to enjoy the same status which she could have otherwise enjoyed in her matrimonial house but if the husband is a able-bodied person, then he cannot refuse to pay adequate maintenance amount to his wife merely on the ground that his monthly income is less.