SURAJ NARAYAN SINHA vs MS ANURADHA SINHA

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 21.04.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 411/2017 SURAJ NARAYAN SINHA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. K. Sunil, Advocate versus MS ANURADHA SINHA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ashok Kumar Sherawat, Advocate, ASI Sachin Singh, IO. + CRL.REV.P. 929/2017 SURAJ NARAYAN SINHA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. K. Sunil, Advocate versus ANURADHA SINHA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ashok Kumar Sherawat, Advocate + CRL.REV.P. 930/2017 SURAJ NARAYAN SINHA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. K. Sunil, Advocate versus ANURADHA SINHA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ashok Kumar Sherawat, Advocate CRL.REV.P. 411/2017 & connected matters Page 1 of 15 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:25.04.2025 18:00:28 CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of these revision petitions, the petitioner assails three orders passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Central District, Tis Hazari Court, Delhi [hereafter ‘Family Court’] – details of which have been set out in the succeeding paragraphs – essentially in connection with the proceedings pertaining to the grant of maintenance by the petitioner-husband to the respondent-wife under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter „Cr.P.C.‟]. 2. Firstly, it shall be apposite to take note of the factual context in which the present petitions were filed before this Court. The marriage of the petitioner and respondent was solemnized on 08.05.1987, according to Hindu rites and ceremonies at village Rahui, District Nalanda, Bihar. No child was born out of the said wedlock. The respondent had alleged that after the marriage, she had been subjected to cruelty and repeated demands of dowry and that she had be