other hand the respondent filed an application under section 488 , Criminal Procedure Code, in a Court at Ludhiana and obtained an order of maintenance ... long time she was forced to approach the criminal Court under Section 488 , Criminal Procedure Code, and obtained an order of maintenance. Against that order
wife had applied for maintenance under Section 488 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The opposite party had denied that he had married the applicant ... found entitled to any maintenance under Section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Under that section, the marriage has to be strictly proved before
under the corresponding Section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898); a decree or order, as the case
wife made an application for maintenance under Section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. There was further correspondence and ultimately the husband instituted
section (1) of Section 125 of the new
Criminal Procedure Code , with regard to the right to claim maintenance,
states that the expression 'wife ... maintain the wife was stipulated even under Sec.
488 of the earlier Code. In 1973 when the Cr.P.C . was exhaustively
amended, the legislature
section (1) of Section 125 of the new Criminal Procedure Code , with
regard to the right to claim maintenance, states that the expression 'wife ... maintain the wife was stipulated even under
Sec. 488 of the earlier Code. In 1973 when the Cr.P.C . was
exhaustively amended, the legislature
impression that
so far as the provisions of Section 488 of the Code of 1898 were
concerned they had no bearing on conjugal relations between ... pithily and pointedly observed as follows:
The whole of Chapter XLI, Criminal Procedure Code , so far as it
relates to the maintenance of wives, contemplates
