SH. ANKUR JAIN vs SMT. SWATI JAIN

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 02.12.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 09.12.2025 Judgment uploaded on: 09.12.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 662/2024 & CRL.M.A. 15280/2024 SH. ANKUR JAIN .....Petitioner Through: Mr. S.N Gupta, Advocate. versus SMT. SWATI JAIN .....Respondent Through: Mr. Aashish Kumar Singh and Ms. Chitrakshi Vedi, Advocates CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of this revision petition, the petitioner seeks setting aside of judgment dated 28.02.2024 [hereafter „impugned judgment‟] passed in MT Case No. 127/2020, titled ‘Smt. Swati Jain v. Sh. Ankur Jain’, by the learned Judge, Family Court-02, North-East, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi, [hereafter „Family Court‟] vide which the petitioner-husband has been directed to pay maintenance of ₹25,000/- per month to the respondent-wife. 2. Brief facts of the case are that the marriage between the parties was solemnized on 13.07.2016 at Delhi as per Hindu rites and CRL.REV.P. 662/2024 Page 1 of 8 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:09.12.2025 15:19:28 customs. Eventually, in March 2020, the respondent-wife filed a petition under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter „Cr.P.C.‟] seeking maintenance, alleging that although her parents had spent about ₹15 lakhs on the marriage, the petitioner- husband and his family had remained dissatisfied with the dowry and had subjected her to continuous harassment, beatings, and demands for an additional ₹5 lakhs and a car. She claimed that on 17.10.2018 she was mercilessly beaten and thrown out of the matrimonial home, and that even when she returned with her brother on 17.02.2019, she was not allowed to enter the house and was abused and threat