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Court Name : Delhi High Court

Law Point: Maintenance dismissed with costs fine of Rs.10,000/-due to suppression of facts

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
Date of Reserve: January 07, 2010
Date of Order: January 25, 2010
+ Cont. Cas(C) 482 of 2008
% 25.01.2010
Gurbinder Singh …Petitioner
Through: Mr. V.M. Issar, Advocates
Versus
Manjit Kaur …Respondents
Through: Mr. Anish Dhingra, Advocate along with respondent in person.
JUSTICE SHIV NARAYAN DHINGRA
1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment?
2. To be referred to the reporter or not?
3. Whether judgment should be reported in Digest?
JUDGMENT
1. The petitioner has preferred this contempt petition against respondent
alleging violation of an undertaking given to the Court of Additional District Judge,
Jallandhar on 8th September 2000.
2. The petitioner and respondent are husband and wife. The petitioner was in the
Army and the wife was working as a teacher in S.D. Model School, Jalandhar Cantt.
The divorce and various other proceedings were going on between the parties. The
parties with the intervention of their counsels entered into a settlement and this
settlement was recorded by the Court. In that settlement, the respondent (wife)
agreed that she will not initiate any type of action against petitioner or against
children of the parties or against the parents of the petitioner and other relatives of
the petitioner (the children were at that time living with the petitioner) before the
Court of law or before any other authority and she would not do anything which would
affect the character, status or reputation of the petitioner. The petitioner also gave a
similar undertaking that he would not disturb respondent in any manner and he
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would not institute any action against her either before the Court of law or before any
authority and he will not try to castigate honour or character or reputation in any
manner. Thereafter, before this Court in April’05, she (respondent) again filed an
affidavit that she would abide by the undertaking given to the learned ADJ on 8th
September 2000 and she would not harass or humiliate the petitioner in future and
will not create any cause of action afresh. This undertaking was given by way of an
affidavit. Thereafter, the respondent herein filed an application under Section 125
Cr.P.C. before the Jallandhar Court in August’ 04 claiming maintenance from the
petitioner on the ground that the petitioner had neglected to maintain her and she
had no source of income. There is no doubt that the respondent had a right to claim
maintenance from the petitioner, if she was not able to maintain herself. A perusal of
the ex parte order obtained by her from the Court of Jallandhar shows that she
concealed all material facts from the Court at Jallandhar. She did not disclose that she
was working as a teacher in a school at Jallandhar and that there was an agreement
between the parties arrived before learned ADJ, Delhi and that she had also filed an
affidavit in the High Court that she would not unnecessarily harass the husband.
Where a person after concealing the material facts about her own employment and
about the undertaking given to the Court, files an application for maintenance just to
harass the opposite side, after giving an undertaking to the Court that she would not
harass the petitioner (husband), I consider this amounts to violation of undertaking
given by her. The respondent appeared in person today in the Court and admitted
that at the time she filed the petition in the Jallandhar Court, she was gainfully
employed as a teacher and she continued to remain in employment till 2008 i.e. even
after passing of the order under Section 125 of Cr.P.C. A perusal of the ex parte order
passed by learned JM would show that the respondent had concealed from the JM
about her own employment, her salary from the school and her assets and contended
that the respondent was drawing a pension of Rs.10,000/- per month and his income
from other sources was Rs.20,000/- per month and she obtained an order of grant of
maintenance @ Rs.3,000/- per month from the date of application. She did not
disclose to this Court when she filed her affidavit in this Court in April, 2005 that
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she had filed a petition at Jallandhar Court which was going on ex parte or that she
had already preferred a petition under Section 125 of Cr.P.C which was pending.
3. I consider that the conduct of the wife (respondent herein) of not disclosing to
this Court about a petition being pursued by her and her conduct of concealing the
material information from the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Jallandhar obtaining an ex
parte order was contemptuous and violation of an undertaking given by her.
4. I, therefore, hold the respondent guilty of contempt and a fine of Rs.10,000/- is
imposed on her. However, after her retirement, if she seeks maintenance for herself
after disclosing to the Court concerned about her pension and other income and
properties, which she holds in Delhi and other places, she would be free to make a
petition regarding maintenance before the Court of competent jurisdiction.
5. With above order, the petition stands disposed of.

January 25, 2010 SHIV NARAYAN DHINGRA J.
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