09 Jun 2026 08:27 AM

Maintenance -- Suppression of Income -- Contradictory income disclosures before different forums vitiates maintenance order and warrants fresh determination

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, S.125 -- Maintenance -- Suppression of Income -- Deliberate suppression of income by a wife in maintenance proceedings, particularly where contradictory disclosures are made before different forums, vitiates the maintenance order and warrants fresh determination -- Mandatory affidavits of assets and liabilities prescribed in Rajnesh v. Neha are intended to prevent concealment and speculative litigation -- Possession of some independent income does not automatically disentitle a wife from maintenance if such income is insufficient to sustain the standard of living enjoyed during the subsistence of marriage.

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