📘 Key Cases – Denial of Maintenance to Wife | 2nd Edition (2025)
✒️ A Judicial Compilation of Landmark Rulings, this book presents a balanced legal perspective on maintenance laws, focusing exclusively on cases where courts denied or reduced maintenance to the wife based on legally permissible grounds under various Indian statutes.

🔍 Key Highlights:

• ⚖️ Covers Judgments from Supreme Court & High Courts
  Comprehensive case summaries where courts found sufficient cause to reject or reduce maintenance claims

• 📚 Multistatutory Approach
  Includes rulings under Section 125 CrPC, Hindu Marriage Act, Domestic Violence Act, and Muslim Women (Protection of Rights) Act, among others

• 💬 Clarity on Grounds for Denial
  Includes judicial observations on adultery, voluntary desertion, employment of wife, concealment of facts, and misuse of legal provisions

• 🧾 Citation-Rich Content
  Contains equivalent citations from major law journals like SCC, AIR, DMC, CriLJ, All LJ, etc., for each case

👥 Who Should Read This Book?

• ⚖️ Advocates & Legal Practitioners – Essential reference for handling maintenance defence cases

• 📖 Judges & Judicial Officers – A guide to help balance social justice with evidentiary standards

• 👨‍👩‍⚖️ Husbands Facing Misuse of Maintenance Provisions – Helps understand grounds available for lawful denial or reduction

• 🧑‍🎓 Law Students & Researchers – For academic study on gender jurisprudence, maintenance litigation, and statutory interpretation

📖 Coverage Includes:

• 📉 Denial of Maintenance
  On grounds such as wife’s income, capability to earn, refusal to live with husband without sufficient cause, or commission of adultery

• 🧾 Reduced Maintenance Quantum
  Where courts scaled down the awarded amount due to financial incapacity of husband, evidence of independent means of wife, or false submissions

• ⚖️ Judicial Principles and Reasoning
  Case laws elucidating the objective of maintenance provisions, balancing social welfare with legal integrity

• 🧠 Practical and Thematic Indexing
  Cases arranged under clearly defined legal heads such as "Wife earning sufficiently," "Adulterous conduct," "Desertion without cause," etc.

🆕 What’s New in the 2nd Edition?

• ✅ Updated Case Law till 2025 – Includes recent rulings reflecting evolving judicial trends

• 🧾 More Law Journal Citations – Enables quick cross-referencing and court-wise identification

• 📚 Retained Original Structure with Revised Content – Enhanced clarity, more examples, and thematic enrichment

📘 A Must-Have Resource for those involved in matrimonial litigation, especially where evidence supports the husband’s defence in maintenance proceedings. The book does not challenge women’s rights, but ensures that legal remedies are not misused, and justice is equitably delivered in family law disputes.