The petitioner and the respondent got married in 2001. The petitioner gave birth to a child, and thereafter, differences between the parties arose. The petitioner left her husband and went to stay with her mother. She took her daughter also away. While she was staying with her mother, she sought maintenance from her husband by filing application under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code. This application was allowed only to the extent of her daughter. Her application was rejected mainly because she was having sufficient source of income of her own. The peculiarity of that litigation was that the respondent/husband had taken up a defence that he had divorced the petitioner, and so, he was not liable to pay maintenance to her. However, in that proceedings, the Courts below held that he did not prove the divorce. In this background what happened subsequently is required to be appreciated. The petitioner thus failed to secure maintenance for her under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code but she did not keep quite. She started the present litigation vide Criminal Misc. Application no. 307 of 2005, which she filed in the Court of learned J.M.F.C. Beed. She filed this application under Section 3 of the Muslim Women's (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986. She this time admitted that her husband had divorced her. She therefore, made demand of the dues that were accrued to her as per S.3 of the Act on divorce. The valuables on divorce payable to the divorced Muslim woman are mentioned in Section 3. They are (i) Maintenance for Idat period, (ii) the amount equally to the sum of mahr or dower agreed to be paid to her at the time of her marriage or at any time thereafter according to Muslim law, (iii) All
