Maintenance to second wife is to be granted if husband fails to prove his first marriage
When a husband takes a plea that the marriage was void due to subsistence of an earlier marriage, the same requires clear and strict proof and the burden of strict proof of earlier marriage is on the husband to discharge.;Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is meant to achieve a social purpose. The object is to prevent vagrancy and destitution. It provides a speedy remedy for the supply of food, clothing and shelter to the deserted wife. When an attempt is made by the husband to negative the claim of the neglected wife depicting her as a kept mistress on the specious plea that he was already married,
