‘Every able-bodied man’s moral duty to maintain wife’
New Delhi: 09.12.2021
A Delhi court has dismissed a plea challenging the payment of maintenance to his estranged wife, saying every able-bodied man is bound to maintain his wife and cannot run away from this responsibility by giving excuses.
District Judge Ramesh Kumar said that being the husband, he cannot escape from his moral duty of providing maintenance to his wife.
“The Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is aimed at strengthening the economic independence of a woman,” the court said in the order.
It further said the magistrate court rightly observed that the aspect of financial deprivation of women is included in the category of economic abuse. “It is pertinent to mention that an aggrieved woman needs economic support in view of the domestic violence perpetrated upon her by a person, who is in domestic relation with her.”
A magistrate court had earlier directed the man to pay an interim maintenance of Rs 6,500 per month to his wife. The man had challenged the order before the sessions court. TNN
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