When second wife is entitled to get maintenance?

Supreme Court: Endowing purposive interpretation to Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, the Court held that where a man marriages second time by keeping that lady in dark about the first surviving marriage, such lady will be treated to be a legally wedded wife of the man for the purpose of claiming maintenance as if this interpretation is not accepted, it would amount to giving a premium to the husband for defrauding the wife. Stating that the husband cannot take advantage of his own wrong by saying that such second wife cannot claim

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