Supreme Court of India · 2010
Bhushan Kumar Meen v. Mansi Meen
In 2010 the Supreme Court ordered maintenance of Rs 5,000 a month in Bhushan Kumar Meen v. Mansi Meen, against a declared income of Rs 9,000 a month.
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Rs 5,000a month, about Rs 12,350 in today's money
Award type
Monthly
Husband's income
Rs 9,000about Rs 22,231 today
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 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaturbhuj v. Sita Bai | Supreme Court of India | 2008 | Not stated | Section 125 CrPC | Granted |
| Shamima Farooqui v. Shahid Khan | Supreme Court of India | 2015 | Rs 4,000Rs 6,649 in today's money | Section 125 CrPC | Granted |
| Vinny Parmvir Parmar v. Parmvir Parmar | Supreme Court of India | 2011 | Rs 40,000Rs 90,762 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
- (2010) 15 SCC 372
- Inflation adjustment method: how we restate old awards.
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