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1995 Supreme(Online)(Bom) 9

BOMBAY HIGH COURT
, J
Mst. Noor Jehan – Appellant
Versus
Salim Haji Shakoor – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. A. J. Khan
For the Respondents: Unspecified

Table of Content
1. entitlement of child maintenance beyond two years under cr. p. c. (Para 1 , 6 , 7)
2. summary of facts including relationship and proceedings initiated. (Para 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)
3. legislative intent behind maintenance rights for children. (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13)
4. judicial directive for reconsideration of maintenance application. (Para 14 , 15)

1. An important question of law that too of general importance is as to whether a minor child of divorced Muslim wife is entitled to claim maintenance under S.125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short "the Cr. P. C.") from his or her father even after he or she has attained the age of more than two years. In other words, the important question of law is whether a divorced woman can claim maintenance from her former husband for the child or children born to her from that husband before or after her divorce even after the child or children have attained the age of two years under S.125, of the Cr. P. C. despite the provisions of S.3(b), of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 (for short "the Act of 1986").

2. The undisputed facts are that the petitioner Mst. Noor Jehan married Salim Haji Shak

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