Calcutta High Court · 2025
Rinki Chakraborty Nee Das v. State of West Bengal
In 2025, the Calcutta High Court fixed maintenance at Rs 4,000 a month in Rinki Chakraborty Nee Das v. State of West Bengal.
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Rs 4,000a month
Award type
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.
The point of interest
Calcutta HC held able-bodied husband cannot avoid legal duty to maintain wife citing unemployment or financial hardship; husband directed to pay Rs 4000/month from date of filing application; 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calcutta HC Lifestyle Maintenance 2025 | Calcutta High Court | 2025 | Rs 25,000 | 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
- 2025CHC AS1792
- Full text of the judgement on IndianKanoon.
- Inflation adjustment method: how we restate old awards.
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