In April 1978, the respondent filed a petition against the appellant under section 125 of the Code in the companyrt of the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class , Indore asking for maintenance at the rate of Rs 500 per month.
200 per month for about two years and that, he had deposited a sum of Rs.
25 per month to the respondent by way of maintenance.
His defence to the respondents petition for maintenance was that she had ceased to be his wife by reason of the divorce granted by him, to provide that he was therefore under numberobligation maintenance for her, that he had already paid maintenance to her at the rate of Rs.
In The Meaning of the Glorious Quran, Text and Explanatory Translation, by Marmaduke Pickthall, Taj Company Ltd.,karachi , Aiyat 241 is translated thus 241.
241 is translated thus And for the divorced woman also a provision should be made with fairness in addition to her dower This is a duty incumbent on the reverent.
From the Judgment and Order dated 1.
T. Desai and S.A. Syed for the Intervener Jamat UlemaHind.
For divorced women a provision in kindness A duty for those who ward off evil .
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
In August, 1979 the learned Magistrate directed appellant to pay a princely sum of Rs.
On November 6, 1978 the appellant divorced the respondent by an irrevocable talaq.
Revision No.
Danial Latifi Nafess Ahmad Siddiqui, S.N. Singh and N.Singh for the Respondents.
103 of 1981.
1980 of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Crl.
Yunus Salim and Shakeel Ahmed for Muslim Personal Law Board.
The appellant, who is an advocate by profession, was married to the respondent in 1932.
Three sons and two daughters were born of that marriage In 1975, the appellant drove the respondent out of the matrimonial home.
This appeal, arising out of an appellation filed by a divorced Muslim woman for maintenance under section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, raises a straightforward issue which is of companymon interest number only to Muslim women, number only to women generally but, to all those who, aspiring to create an equal society of men and women, lure themselves into the belief that mankind has achieved a remarkable degree of progress in that direction.
