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Maintenance to Wife and Child Is a Right, Not Charity: Andhra Pradesh High Court Dismisses Husband’s Plea Against Wife & Child Maintenance
In a significant ruling reinforcing maintenance jurisprudence in India, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed a husband’s criminal revision petition challenging a Family Court order directing him to pay monthly maintenance to his estranged wife and minor son. Justice Y Lakshmana Rao , in an order dated February 9 , held: “Maintenance is not charity but a right, and its enforcement is essential to uphold equity, justice, and good conscience.” The Court observed that mai
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Can Government Take Back Permanent Job After 3 Years? Punjab and Haryana High Court Quashes ‘Arbitrary’ De-Regularisation Order
In a significant ruling on government service law, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified whether the government can take back permanent job status after years of regularisation. Terming the State’s action “arbitrary” and “discriminatory”, the Court quashed a 1999 order that de-regularised the services of a long-serving employee. Justice Sandeep Moudgil observed on February 13 : “Public power, exercised without fairness, degenerates into arbitrariness, which our Con
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