He was awarded with 44 months jail for not paying maintenance court oredered to pay to wife, so another 44 month he will be in Jail,because of that he will not be able to earn to pay so he will be jailed another 44 month…..
Now you know Indian judges are A$$ ****.
MUMBAI: Coming to the aid of neglected wives, the Bombay high court has ruled that men who fail to pay a court-ordered maintenance to their estranged spouses can be jailed for every month that they default on the payment.
“This case exemplifies the stark reality of the agony that the women face when their husbands disobey orders of maintenance with impunity,’’ said Justice Roshan Dalvi.
“The husband (in the present case) has been a consistent, persistent, consummate and inveterate defaulter,’’ he added, upholding a family court order, sending Ram Patil to prison for 44 months, the period for which he failed to pay the maintenance amount.
Following an application filed by his wife, Seema, under Section 125 of the CrPC, Patil was directed to pay Rs 1,000 per month, which was later increased to Rs 1,500 per month. The special provision under the section allows a wife or parents to move court, seeking maintenance from a man on grounds of neglect. If he defaults, he could face a maximum jail term of one month.
After Patil failed to pay any part of the maintenance amount, Seema moved the family court for the arrears for the years 2006 to 2009 in four separate applications. Acting on her application, the court sentenced Patil to imprisonment for 44 months—equal number of months that he had defaulted—or pay the arrears of
Rs 50,000 in one go. Patil challenged the order in the high court.
Patil’s lawyers argued that for each application filed by the spouse, the man could be sentenced for a maximum prison term of one month, which in this case, would mean four months. Countering the argument, the HC cited the provision, which stated that for every breach of the order of monthly maintenance, the man could be sentenced to imprisonment for up to one month or until payment—if sooner—was made. “The family court judge has exercised his power of sentencing the husband for every breach of the order of payment of maintenance to one month each,’’ said the judge, dismissing Patil’s application. The HC said the family court was right in fixing the jail term to the number of months that Patil was in arrears.
HOWEVER THE JUDICIARY NEVER PUNISHES A WOMAN WHO DISOBEYS A VISITATION RIGHTS COURT ORDER!
JUDICIARY IS BEHAVING LIKE WOMEN’S AGENT. IN PROSTITUTION AGENTS ARE CALLED PIMPS!
1)THE JUDICIARY IS AN EXTENSION OF THE CRIMINAL NCW!
2)ITS NOT SURPRISING THAT THE JUDICIARY DOES NOT EVEN LIKE THE RTI! THEY LIKE INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY!
ITS BEST TO SACK ALL THE JUDGES AND OUTSOURCE THE JUDICIARY TO RECRUITS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY!
judges have to apply their own discretion on it but where is discretion. think
Major problem hear is that courts and the law itself favours womens and there is no effort of the court to check if women is lying. The laws is designed and interpreted in a manner that Men are always wrong and wealthy bakras. Hear we need to have a strong organisation and association to report abuse against us and persue the matter upto last breath.
“No law provides that a husband has to maintain his wife living separately from him without any sufficient reason, irrespective of the fact whether he earns or not”.
In India Saat Phera is now converted into 7 lakh i.e. 1 phera is equal to 1 lakh. After completing the Saat Phera wife can take the cost of every phera at any time with baseless, illogical and illegal allegations. If husband unable to give then sent to jail and wife searches another husband.
“Mera Bharat Mahan”