Supreme Court of India · 2001
Danial Latifi v. Union of India
The Supreme Court decided Danial Latifi v. Union of India in 2001.
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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.
Why this one gets cited
Lifetime maintenance for Muslim women.
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 2001 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasbir Kaur Sehgal v. District Judge Dehradun | Supreme Court of India | 1997 | Rs 5,000Rs 28,018 in today's money | Section 24 HMA | Granted |
| Chaturbhuj v. Sita Bai | Supreme Court of India | 2008 | Not stated | Section 125 CrPC | Granted |
| Bhushan Kumar Meen v. Mansi Meen | Supreme Court of India | 2010 | Rs 5,000Rs 12,350 in today's money | Section 125 CrPC | |
| 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 |
Sources
- (2001) 7 SCC 740
- Full text of the judgement on IndianKanoon.
- Inflation adjustment method: how we restate old awards.
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