Deepa @ Lakshmi and Anr. v. Pratapsingh
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court, Kalaburagi Bench; NC: 2025:KHC-K:2317; RPFC No.200035/2024 c/w RPFC No.200021/2021; Justice Anant Ramanath Hegde; order dated 15.04.2025. Maintenance enhancement; Section 19(4) Family Courts Act; revision petition family court; minor son's maintenance raised from Rs.1,500/- to Rs.7,000/- p.m.; wife denied maintenance for suppression of subsisting earlier marriage; void marriage; arrears of maintenance; cost of living since 2018; electrician; agricultural land; Crl.Misc.No.598/2018; Family Court Vijayapura; bank account of minor; mother as guardian.
What did the court decide?
Both revision petitions allowed in part: (i) maintenance of petitioner No.2 (minor son) enhanced to Rs.7,000/- per month from the date of petition before this Court (18.04.2024), subject to the respondent paying arrears of maintenance ordered by the Family Court within three months, failing which payable from the date of the original petition before the Family Court; (ii) RPFC No.200035/2024 filed by petitioner No.1 (wife) dismissed; (iii) maintenance already paid to petitioner No.1 not to be recovered; (iv) the amount to be credited to the bank account of petitioner No.2, to be opened appointing petitioner No.1 as guardian, whose details shall be furnished to the respondent.