Maintenance--Section 144 BNSS--Husband Not Entitled to Claim Maintenance from Wife -- Cost of RS. 15 lakhs imposed on Advocate-Husband for “Economic Abuse” and Concealment
A husband is not entitled to claim maintenance from his wife under Section 144 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, as the provision primarily contemplates maintenance for wives, children, and parents. Suppression of material facts and filing of false affidavits before a court constitutes an abuse of process warranting imposition of exemplary compensatory costs. Economic abuse within marriage, including coercive appropriation of a spouse's financial resources, is a judicially cognisable wrong warranting material relief.
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