Savitri v. Govind Singh, 9 October 1985
Annual Review of Population Law 14: 71
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12346784 Document Number: 380481
The Court held that a Magistrate has the power under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code to make an order directing a person to pay a reasonable sum as interim maintenance pending disposal of an order for maintenance, even though nothing in Section 125 explicitly confers such a power. It ruled that such a power was implied in the Code since the purpose of the Code is "to compel a man to perform the moral obligation which he owes to society in respect of his wife and children."