Calcutta High Court · 2025
Calcutta HC Lifestyle Maintenance 2025
Calcutta HC Lifestyle Maintenance 2025 is a 2025 decision of the Calcutta High Court awarding Rs 25,000 a month.
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Rs 25,000a month
Award type
Monthly, stepped up over time
Outcome
Granted
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
Calcutta HC held maintenance under Section 125 CrPC is no longer for bare subsistence but to preserve stability of lifestyle; husband directed to pay Rs 25000/month with 5% hike every two years to account for inflation.
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 2025 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rinki Chakraborty Nee Das v. State of West Bengal | Calcutta High Court | 2025 | Rs 4,000 | Not recorded | Granted |
| Calcutta HC Marriage Validity Not Precondition | Calcutta High Court | 2024 | Not stated | Not recorded | Granted |
| A. Ranjithkumar v. E. Kavitha | Supreme Court of India | 2025 | Rs 1,25,00,000 | Article 142 | Granted |
| Alok Kumar v. Anupama Singh (Patna HC) | Patna High Court | 2025 | Rs 90,00,000 | Section 25 HMA | Granted |
| Chhattisgarh HC Adultery Maintenance Denial | Chhattisgarh High Court | 2025 | Rs 0 | Not recorded | Refused |
Sources
- unreported
- Full text of the judgement on IndianKanoon.
- Inflation adjustment method: how we restate old awards.
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