Section 125 CrPC- Maintenance Order Not To Be Stayed Unless For Very Special Reasons: SC [Read Order]

Higher Courts should not stay an order of maintenance unless there are very special reasons, the Supreme Court has observed. In this case, a wife and minor child filed a petition under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code before Family Court. An ex parte order was passed by the Family Court granting maintenance @ Rs.20, 000. Later, the High court, in a criminal revision petition filed by him, stayed the order, without assigning any reasons.