Businessworld

SC Rules Section 125 CrPC Applies To Muslim Married Woman For Claiming Maintenance, Echoes Contribution Of homemakers

A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih ruled that Section 125 CrPC, which deals with a wife's legal right to maintenance, applies to all women and a divorced Muslim female can ...
The Hindu

Decoding Supreme Court’s verdict on divorced Muslim women’s right to maintenance under Section 125 CrPC

The story so far: The Supreme Court on July 10 ruled that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to a claim of maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973, against her ...
Indiatimes

Non-appearance in response to proclamation a 'stand-alone offence': SC

The Supreme Court has ruled that non-appearance in response to a proclamation under section 82 of CrPC is a stand-alone offence under section 174A IPC. This offence can continue even if the ...
The Hindu

SC examines divorced Muslim women’s right to maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC | Explained

The Supreme Court has decided to examine if a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to a claim of maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) against her former husband — ...