2024 INSC 962
REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(S). OF 2024
(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) NO(S). 15909 of 2023)
AKANKSHA ARORA ….APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS TANAY MABEN …RESPONDENT(S)
O R D E R
1. Service of notice upon the respondent is complete, but
no one has entered appearance on his behalf.
2. Leave granted.
3. We have heard learned counsel for the appellant.
4. The appellant by means of this appeal is assailing the
judgment and order dated 21.09.2023 passed by the High
Court of Jabalpur in Miscellaneous Criminal Case No.18481
of 2022 titled as 'Akanksha Arora vs. Tanay Maben.
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5. It appears that the Principal Judge, Family Court vide
order dated 08.03.2022 in exercise of powers under Section
125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short 'the
CrPC') had fixed interim maintenance in favour of the
appellant.
6. Being dissatisfied with the quantum of interim
maintenance, the appellantwife had filed a petition under
Section 482 CrPC in the High Court seeking enhancement.
The said petition has been dismissed by the High Court by
the order impugned on the ground that it is not
maintainable as the appellantwife has a re...