Calcutta High Court · 2024
Calcutta HC Marriage Validity Not Precondition
Calcutta HC Marriage Validity Not Precondition is a 2024 judgement of the Calcutta High Court on maintenance.
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Monthly
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 strict proof of marriage is not precondition for maintenance under Section 125 CrPC; validity of marriage need not be conclusively determined in summary maintenance proceedings; wife entitled to maintenance even if formal proof of marriage is lacking.
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 2024 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calcutta HC Lifestyle Maintenance 2025 | Calcutta High Court | 2025 | Rs 25,000 | Not recorded | Granted |
| Rinki Chakraborty Nee Das v. State of West Bengal | Calcutta High Court | 2025 | Rs 4,000 | Not recorded | Granted |
| Kiran Jyot Maini v. Anish Pramod Patel | Supreme Court of India | 2024 | Rs 2,00,00,000 | Article 142 | Granted |
| MP HC DV Act Maintenance After CrPC Denial | Madhya Pradesh High Court | 2024 | Not stated | Not recorded | Granted |
| MP HC Idle Qualified Wife 2024 | Madhya Pradesh High Court | 2024 | 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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