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N.K.JAIN
Govind Singh – Appellant
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Sunita Devi – Respondent
It appears that earlier also an order of maintenance was passed in favour of respondent No.1 the wife of the applicant. However, during execution proceedings some compromise was arrived at between the husband and wife and the wife started living with the husband. However, after a lapse of about 3 years, she renewed her prayer alleging that the husband has again neglected to maintain her and minor child. The only objection raised by the applicant is that in view of the first order of maintenance, the second application did not lie in law. He has placed reliance on a Supreme Court decision in Mahua Biswas 1998 (1) MPWN 186.
The Apex Court in the aforesaid decision held:
"The matter can be viewed from either angle. It can be viewed that there was a genuine effort by wife to rehabilitate herself in her matrimonial home but in vain. The revisions orders of maintenance in a manner of speaking could at best be taken to have been suspended but not wiped out altogether. The other view can be t
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