2001 INSC 0137
                                    SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                                Samir Mandal

                                                      Vs.

                                                State of Bihar

                         (G.B.Pattanaik, U.C.Banerjee and S.N.Variava JJ.)

                                                 05.02.2001

                                                   ORDER

The Text below is only a summarized version of the order pronounced

Magistrate granted maintenance to respondent alleging to be wife of appellant despite failure
to establish her marriage with appellant and also alleged second marriage. Supreme Court
held that grant of maintenance under Section 125 does not arise when marriage between
appellant and respondent had not been established.

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