Wife can’t claim maintenance if her action contributes to husband’s incapacity to earn: Allahabad High Court

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The Allahabad High Court noted that a pellet remains lodged successful  the husband’s spinal cord and a country    to region   it carries a precocious   hazard  of paralysis, leaving him incapable  to beryllium   comfortably oregon  support   employment. File

The Allahabad High Court noted that a pellet remains lodged successful the husband’s spinal cord and a country to region it carries a precocious hazard of paralysis, leaving him incapable to beryllium comfortably oregon support employment. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

If a wife’s actions oregon omissions lend to her husband’s incapacity to earn, she cannot assertion attraction from him, the Allahabad High Court has held.

The Court dismissed a revision petition of a pistillate seeking attraction from her husband, a homeopathy doctor, who was allegedly changeable astatine by his brother-in-law and father-in-law during an altercation astatine his clinic.

Upholding the determination of a household tribunal successful Kushinagar, which rejected the attraction exertion of the wife, Justice Lakshmi Kant Shukla observed that granting attraction successful specified a script would effect successful sedate injustice, peculiarly erstwhile the man’s earning capableness was destroyed by the transgression acts of the wife’s family.

Ved Prakash Singh was allegedly changeable astatine by his wife’s member and begetter during an altercation astatine his clinic, rendering him incapable of earning oregon providing attraction to her.

The High Court noted that a pellet remains lodged successful the husband’s spinal cord and a country to region it carries a precocious hazard of paralysis, leaving him incapable to beryllium comfortably oregon support employment.

The household tribunal connected May 7, 2025, rejected the wife’s exertion for interim maintenance. The High Court upheld this decision, noting that the man's carnal incapacity was undisputed and straight caused by the wife's broadside of the family.

“While Indian nine mostly expects a hubby to enactment and support his family, this lawsuit presented unsocial circumstances,” the tribunal of Justice Shukla observed.

“It is good settled that though it is the pious work of a hubby to support his wife, nary specified explicit ineligible work has been formed upon the woman by immoderate tribunal of law.” In the facts of the contiguous case, it prima facie appears that the behaviour of the woman and her household members has rendered the other enactment incapable of earning his livelihood, the tribunal said.

“If a woman by her ain acts oregon omissions causes oregon contributes to the incapacity of her hubby to earn, she cannot beryllium permitted to instrumentality vantage of specified a concern and assertion maintenance. Granting attraction successful specified circumstances would effect successful sedate injustice to the husband, and the tribunal cannot unopen its eyes from the world emerging from the record,” it added.

Published - January 24, 2026 06:29 americium IST

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