Supreme Court of India · 2013
Badshah v. Urmila Badshah Godse
Badshah v. Urmila Badshah Godse is a 2013 decision of the Supreme Court awarding Rs 1,000 a month.
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Rs 1,000a month, about Rs 1,872 in today's money
Award type
Monthly
Child maintenance
Rs 500a month
Claimed under
What the court was looking at
The reported summary does not record the income figures or the length of the marriage, which is common in older reports and in interim orders.
What makes it worth reading
Granted.
How it fits the framework
Since Rajnesh v. Neha in 2020, every maintenance order in India is meant to work through the same list of factors: the standard of living the marriage ran at, what the applicant reasonably needs, whether she is qualified and earning, and whether she gave up work for the family. A judgement from 2013 was decided before that list was written down, but the reasoning behind it is the reasoning courts had been applying for decades. There is a fuller account in how maintenance is calculated.
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Ranked by court, then by income bracket and marriage length rather than by date, so the comparison is with cases a court would actually treat as similar. Every row links to its own page.
| Case | Court | Year | Awarded | Claimed under | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhuwan Mohan Singh v. Meena | Supreme Court of India | 2014 | Rs 2,500Rs 4,399 in today's money | Section 125 CrPC | Granted |
| Sunita Kachwaha v. Anil Kachwaha | Supreme Court of India | 2014 | Rs 3,000Rs 5,279 in today's money | Section 125 CrPC | Granted |
| Vidhya Viswanathan v. Kartik Balakrishnan | Supreme Court of India | 2014 | Rs 40,00,000Rs 70,39,196 in today's money | Section 25 HMA | Granted |
| U. Sree v. U. Srinivas | Supreme Court of India | 2012 | Rs 50,00,000Rs 1,03,78,738 in today's money | Section 25 HMA | Granted |
| Vishwanath Agrawal v. Sarla | Supreme Court of India | 2012 | Rs 50,00,000Rs 1,03,78,738 in today's money | Section 25 HMA | Granted |
Sources
- (2014) 1 SCC 188
- Inflation adjustment method: how we restate old awards.
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