https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=182214 Where a man suppresses his subsisting earlier marriage and induces a second relationship, the woman may be treated as a wife for maintenance under Section 125 CrPC. The Court applied a purposive, social-justice oriented construction of the term "wife" and held that a person cannot defeat a maintenance claim by taking advantage of his own wrong. By distinguishing cases where the woman entered the marriage with full knowledge of the first subsisting marriage, the Court upheld the maintainability of the claim on the basis of deception and proved marriage and cohabitation. en-us Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:52:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=182214 Where a man suppresses his subsisting earlier marriage and induces a second relationship, the woman may be treated as a wife for maintenance under Section 125 CrPC. The Court applied a purposive, social-justice oriented construction of the term "wife" and held that a person cannot defeat a maintenance claim by taking advantage of his own wrong. By distinguishing cases where the woman entered the marriage with full knowledge of the first subsisting marriage, the Court upheld the maintainability of the claim on the basis of deception and proved marriage and cohabitation. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=182214