MANOJ KUMAR vs SANGEETA

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 01.07.2025 CRL.REV.P.(MAT.) 167/2024, CRL.M.A. 38200/2024 & CRL.M.A. 38202/2024 MANOJ KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Puja Jakhar, Mr. Harshit Prakash and Mr. Krishan Chauhan, Advocates. versus SANGEETA .....Respondent Through: Mr. D.K. Sharma, Advocate. CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT Index to the Judgment FACTUAL BACKGROUND .................................................................. 2 SUBMISSIONS BEFORE THE COURT ............................................. 6 ANALYSIS & FINDINGS ..................................................................... 8 Distinction between Interim Relief/Maintenance and Ad-Interim Relief/Maintenance ............................................................................................ 9 The Scope and Objective of Section 125 of Cr.P.C ................................... 10 Grant of Ad-Interim Maintenance: Judicial Precedents ............................. 12 Law of Grant of Ad-Interim Maintenance: Summarised and Clarified ... 18 Whether ad-interim maintenance can be granted even in the absence of a specific application made to that effect? .