Single-judge Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) noted that the petitioner woman was married to her husband on October 12, 2003 and that she was allegedly driven out of her matrimonial home on October 12, 2012 i.e. after demands for dowry were not fulfilled.
Her husband allegedly married another lady and then the petitioner wife was driven out for want of more dowry, the Court noted.
“A man who can marry for the second time (permitted under personal law), is duty bound to maintain his first wife of 9 years. A woman who has diligently, sincerely and lovingly put in so many years her life, in a relationship with the husband, deserves to be looked after and cared for by him, as long as she needs or requires the same,” the bench observed in its order.
Source: Barandbench
