Maintenance, Alimony & Financial Support · 12 March 2026
Interim Maintenance Under Section 125 CrPC Must Ordinarily Run From Date Of Application, Not Date Of Order
High Court of Delhi · 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 255 | CRL.REV.P. 520/2024
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The Family Court had awarded interim maintenance to a wife and her minor child, but directed that it be paid only from the date of its own order — leaving the couple without support for the entire period the case had been pending. The wife challenged this before the Delhi High Court.
Allowing the revision petition, the High Court reiterated the Supreme Court's ratio in Rajnesh v. Neha: interim maintenance under Section 125 CrPC must ordinarily be granted from the date the application was filed, not from the date the court eventually rules on it. The point is to stop an applicant from being penalised by the court's own delays in deciding the case.
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