Husband cannot evade maintenance obligation solely for disobeying restitution decree: Supreme Court

The central question before the Supreme Court was whether a wife’s failure to cohabit with her husband and comply with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, without sufficient reason, by itself attracts the disqualification under Section 125(4) CrPC, denying her maintenance.

Husband cannot evade maintenance obligation solely for disobeying restitution decree: Supreme Court
The central question before the Supreme Court was whether a wife’s failure to cohabit with her husband and comply with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, without sufficient reason, by itself attracts the disqualification under Section 125(4) CrPC, denying her maintenance.